A case of Erdheim-Chester disease initially mistaken for Ormond's disease

Nature Clinical Practice Rheumatology

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 50-55

  Loddenkemper, Konstanze ^a   Hoyer, Bimba ^a   Loddenkemper, Christoph ^a   Hermann, Kay Geert ^a   Rogalla, Patrick ^a   Förster, Gregor ^a   Buttgereit, Frank ^a   Hiepe, Falk ^a   Burmester, Gerd Rüdiger ^a  

^a CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA INTERFERON; BETA 2 MICROGLOBULIN; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CREATININE; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; HEMOGLOBIN; PREDNISOLONE;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ANEMIA; ARTICLE; BONE MARROW BIOPSY; BONE SCINTISCANNING; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG RESPONSE; DRUG SUBSTITUTION; DRUG TOLERABILITY; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; ERDHEIM CHESTER DISEASE; FEVER; HEMOGLOBIN DETERMINATION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; KIDNEY DYSFUNCTION; LABORATORY TEST; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; RETROPERITONEAL FIBROSIS; THORAX SCINTISCANNING;

ANEMIA; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ERDHEIM-CHESTER DISEASE; HUMANS; HYDRONEPHROSIS; INTERFERON TYPE I, RECOMBINANT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROPERITONEAL FIBROSIS;

EID: 38049066089     PISSN: 17458382     EISSN: 17458390     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncprheum0677     Document Type: Article

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