Vasculitis involving the breast: A clinical and histopathologic analysis of 34 patients

Medicine

Volumn 87, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 61-69

  Hernández Rodríguez, José ^a   Tan, Carmela D ^a   Molloy, Eamonn S ^a   Khasnis, Atul ^a   Rodríguez, E Rene ^a   Hoffman, Gary S ^a  

^a LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; HEMOGLOBIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE COURSE; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; FEMALE; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LABORATORY TEST; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VASCULITIS;

ADRENAL CORTEX HORMONES; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ARTHRALGIA; BIOPSY, NEEDLE; BLOOD SEDIMENTATION; BONE DISEASES; BREAST; BREAST DISEASES; FATIGUE; FEMALE; FEVER; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEMOGLOBINS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; MUSCULAR DISEASES; VASCULITIS; WEIGHT LOSS;

EID: 40949165388     PISSN: 00257974     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MD.0b013e31816a8d1f     Document Type: Article

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