Airway Involvement in Wegener's Granulomatosis

Rheumatic Disease Clinics of North America

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 755-775

  Polychronopoulos, Vlassis S ^a,b   Prakash, Udaya B S ^b   Golbin, Jason M ^b   Edell, Eric S ^b   Specks, Ulrich ^b  

^a IASO GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Greece)

^b MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; AZATHIOPRINE; CORTICOSTEROID; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; CYTOTOXIC AGENT; FLUTICASONE; GLUCOCORTICOID; IMMUNOMODULATING AGENT; METHOTREXATE; NEUTROPHIL CYTOPLASMIC ANTIBODY;

ASTHMA; BLEEDING; BRONCHOMALACIA; BRONCHOPLASTY; BRONCHOPLEURAL FISTULA; BRONCHOSCOPY; BRONCHUS DISEASE; BRONCHUS STENOSIS; BRONCHUS TUMOR; CHONDROPATHY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COUGHING; DEBRIDEMENT; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DRUG DOSE TITRATION; DYSPNEA; EDEMA; EPIGLOTTIS; EPIGLOTTIS TUMOR; ERYTHEMA; GINGIVITIS; HUMAN; LARYNX EDEMA; LARYNX GRANULOMA; LARYNX STENOSIS; LUNG FUNCTION; LUNG HEMORRHAGE; LUNG VOLUME; MUCOSAL BLEEDING; NECROSIS; NOSE INJURY; NOSE MUCOSA; NOSE ULCER; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OTITIS MEDIA; PHARYNX HEMORRHAGE; POLYP; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY TRACT INTUBATION; REVIEW; SINUSITIS; SPIROMETRY; STENT; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TRACHEA DISEASE; TRACHEOSTOMY; ULCER; WEGENER GRANULOMATOSIS; WHEEZING;

BRONCHIAL DISEASES; BRONCHOSCOPY; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; GLOTTIS; HUMANS; LARYNGEAL DISEASES; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; RESPIRATORY FUNCTION TESTS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; WEGENER GRANULOMATOSIS;

EID: 36249002754     PISSN: 0889857X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rdc.2007.09.004     Document Type: Review

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