Pleural involvement in systemic autoimmune disorders

Respiration

Volumn 75, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 361-371

  Bouros, Demosthenes ^a   Pneumatikos, Ioannis ^a   Tzouvelekis, Argyris ^a  

^a DEMOCRITUS UNIVERSITY OF THRACE MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

Author keywords

Collagen vascular diseases; Connective tissue diseases; Pleura; Pleural disease; Pleural effusion; Rheumatoid arthritis; Systemic diseases; Systemic lupus erythematosus

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID; CYCLOSPORIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; STEROID; TETRACYCLINE;

ANKYLOSING SPONDYLITIS; COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CYTOLOGY; DERMATOMYOSITIS; DRUG MEGADOSE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; MIXED CONNECTIVE TISSUE DISEASE; PATHOGENESIS; PLEURA BIOPSY; PLEURA DISEASE; PLEURA EFFUSION; PLEURA EMPYEMA; PLEURA FLUID; PLEURISY; PLEURODESIS; PNEUMOTHORAX; POLYMYOSITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; REVIEW; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SCLERODERMA; SJOEGREN SYNDROME; SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS; SYSTEMIC SCLEROSIS; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; WEGENER GRANULOMATOSIS;

ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; CONNECTIVE TISSUE DISEASES; HUMANS; LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS, SYSTEMIC; PLEURAL CAVITY; PLEURAL EFFUSION; PNEUMOTHORAX; SPONDYLITIS, ANKYLOSING;

EID: 43649098507     PISSN: 00257931     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000119051     Document Type: Review

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