Relapsing polychondritis and malignant lymphoma: Is polychondritis paraneoplastic?

Archives of Dermatology

Volumn 143, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 89-90

  Yanagi, Teruki ^a   Matsumura, Tetsuri ^a   Kamekura, Ryuta ^a   Sasaki, Noriko ^a   Hashino, Satoshi ^b  

^a Tonan Hospital   (Japan)

^b HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; DICLOFENAC; DOXORUBICIN; LOXOPROFEN; PREDNISOLONE; VINCRISTINE SULFATE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD CELL COUNT; BONE MARROW BIOPSY; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; LYMPHOMA; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; POLYCHONDRITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT DISEASE;

DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPHOMA; MIDDLE AGED; PARANEOPLASTIC SYNDROMES; POLYCHONDRITIS, RELAPSING;

EID: 33846444042     PISSN: 0003987X     EISSN: 0003987X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archderm.143.1.89     Document Type: Article

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