Idiopathic yellow nail syndrome successfully treated with OK-432

Internal Medicine

Volumn 46, Issue 14, 2007, Pages 1127-1130

  Yamagishi, Toru ^a   Hatanaka, Nobuyuki ^a   Kamemura, Hirotaka ^a   Nakazawa, Ichiro ^a   Hirano, Yusuke ^a   Kodaka, Norio ^a   Miura, Atsuo ^a   Kitahara, Asako ^a   Sawata, Tetsuro ^a   Hosaka, Kimio ^a   Sanno, Ken ^a  

^a TOHO UNIVERSITY OHASHI MEDICAL CENTER   (Japan)

Author keywords

Chemical pleurodesis; Lymphedema; OK 432; Pleural effusion; Yellow nail

Indexed keywords

DIURETIC AGENT; PICIBANIL; TUBERCULOSTATIC AGENT;

AGED; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE COURSE; DYSPNEA; FEMALE; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; LYMPHEDEMA; PLEURA BIOPSY; PLEURA EFFUSION; PLEURODESIS; POSITIVE END EXPIRATORY PRESSURE; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; THORAX DRAINAGE; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TRACHEOSTOMY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YELLOW NAIL SYNDROME;

AGED; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPHEDEMA; NAIL DISEASES; PICIBANIL; PIGMENTATION DISORDERS; PLEURAL EFFUSION; PLEURODESIS; SYNDROME; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 34548461278     PISSN: 09182918     EISSN: 13497235     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2169/internalmedicine.46.0022     Document Type: Article

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