A case of mixed connective tissue disease complicated with thymic carcinoma and Hashimoto's thyroiditis

Modern Rheumatology

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 63-66

  Yoshidome, Yoshito ^a,c   Hayashi, Shigeaki ^a   Maruyama, Yoshikazu ^a   Yoneda, Toshi ^a   Matsuzoe, Daisuke ^a   Kawakami, Takehito ^a   Shirahama, Hiroshi ^a   Tashiro, Yukie ^a   Eiraku, Nobutaka ^b  

^a Imakiire General Hospital   (Japan)

^b KAGOSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c KAGOSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Hashimoto's thyroiditis; Mixed connective tissue disease; Paraneoplastic syndrome; Thymic carcinoma

Indexed keywords

ANTINUCLEAR ANTIBODY; CD5 ANTIGEN; IMIDAPRIL; LEVOTHYROXINE SODIUM; NIFEDIPINE; PREDNISOLONE; SMALL NUCLEAR RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN; THYROID PEROXIDASE ANTIBODY;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HASHIMOTO DISEASE; HUMAN; HUMAN T CELL LEUKEMIA VIRUS 1; HYPERTENSION; HYPOTHYROIDISM; JAPANESE; LABORATORY TEST; LEUKOPENIA; MIXED CONNECTIVE TISSUE DISEASE; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; PARANEOPLASTIC SYNDROME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY HYPERTENSION; RAYNAUD PHENOMENON; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; THYMOMA; MIDDLE AGED; RADIOGRAPHY;

FEMALE; HASHIMOTO DISEASE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; MIXED CONNECTIVE TISSUE DISEASE; PARANEOPLASTIC SYNDROMES; THYMOMA; THYMUS NEOPLASMS;

EID: 34247616075     PISSN: 14397595     EISSN: 14397609     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10165-006-0535-x     Document Type: Article

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