Aggressive CNS lupus vasculitis in the absence of systemic disease activity [5]

Rheumatology

Volumn 47, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 107-109

  Everett, C M ^a   Graves, T D ^a   Lad, S ^a   Jager H R ^a   Thom, M ^b   Isenberg, D A ^c   Hanna, M G ^a  

^a NATIONAL HOSPITAL FOR NEUROLOGY AND NEUROSURGERY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACICLOVIR; ANTINUCLEAR ANTIBODY; AZATHIOPRINE; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CARBAMAZEPINE; CARDIOLIPIN ANTIBODY; CEFUROXIME; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; DOUBLE STRANDED DNA ANTIBODY; HYDROXYCHLOROQUINE; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; PHENYTOIN; PREDNISOLONE;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADULT; ALOPECIA; ARTHRALGIA; BRAIN BIOPSY; BRAIN VASCULITIS; CASE REPORT; CHOLECYSTITIS; COMA; CONVALESCENCE; DETERIORATION; DIARRHEA; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE ACTIVITY; DISEASE DURATION; ECHOGRAPHY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; FEMALE; FEVER; HEMIPARESIS; HERPES SIMPLEX VIRUS; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; LETTER; MONONEUROPATHY MULTIPLEX; MOUTH ULCER; NAUSEA; NORMOCHROMIC NORMOCYTIC ANEMIA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHOTOSENSITIVITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RASH; SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS; TONIC CLONIC SEIZURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VIRUS ENCEPHALITIS;

EID: 37349098844     PISSN: 14620324     EISSN: 14620332     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/rheumatology/kem264     Document Type: Letter

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