Nephrogenic fibrosing dermopathy: A new clinical entity mimicking scleroderma [1]

Internal Medicine Journal

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 139-141

  Cheung, P P M ^a   Dorai Raj, A K ^a  

^a CANBERRA HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL TEAR; CALCIUM; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; CYCLOSPORIN; DILTIAZEM; GABAPENTIN; METHADONE; PARACETAMOL; RISEDRONIC ACID; STEROID; THALIDOMIDE; WARFARIN;

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ARTHRALGIA; CASE REPORT; CHRONIC GRAFT VERSUS HOST DISEASE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE SEVERITY; DISKITIS; EOSINOPHILIA MYALGIA SYNDROME; EOSINOPHILIC FASCIITIS; FEMALE; GLOMERULONEPHRITIS; HEMODIALYSIS; HORMONE SUBSTITUTION; HUMAN; KIDNEY FAILURE; LETTER; NEPHROGENIC FIBROSING DERMOPATHY; PERITONEAL DIALYSIS; PORPHYRIA CUTANEA TARDA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RENAL REPLACEMENT THERAPY; SCLERODERMA; SCLEROMYXEDEMA; SKIN BIOPSY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; FIBROSIS; HUMANS; KIDNEY DISEASES; MIDDLE AGED; SCLERODERMA, LOCALIZED;

EID: 33846065821     PISSN: 14440903     EISSN: 14455994     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1445-5994.2007.01252.x     Document Type: Letter

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