Paraneoplastic polyarthritis in an ovarian teratoma

Journal of Rheumatology

Volumn 31, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 1854-1857

  Wiese, Wilhelmine ^a,d   Alansari, Huda ^b   Tranchida, Paul ^b   Madrid, Felix Fernández ^c  

^a Div of General Internal Medicine   (United States)

^b Department of Internal Medicine ^*

^c Division of Rheumatology   (United States)

^d WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Arthritis; Ovarian neoplasm; Paraneoplastic syndrome; Tenosynovitis; Teratoma

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTHRALGIA; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNITY; BENIGN TUMOR; CASE REPORT; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; GERM CELL TUMOR; HUMAN; LOW BACK PAIN; OVARY TERATOMA; PARANEOPLASTIC POLYARTHRITIS; PARANEOPLASTIC SYNDROME; POLYARTHRITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEROCONVERSION; SYSTEMIC DISEASE; TENOSYNOVITIS;

ADULT; ARTHRITIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; OVARIAN NEOPLASMS; PARANEOPLASTIC SYNDROMES; TENOSYNOVITIS; TERATOMA;

EID: 4444294570     PISSN: 0315162X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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