Improvement of skin sclerosis after occurrence of anticentromere antibody in a patient with diffuse cutaneous systemic sclerosis

Clinical Rheumatology

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 345-347

  Hayakawa, Ikuko ^a   Sato, Shinichi ^a   Echigo, Takeshi ^a   Shirasaki, Fumiaki ^a   Hasegawa, Minoru ^a   Takehara, Kazuhiko ^a  

^a KANAZAWA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Anticentromere antibody; Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia; Systemic sclerosis

Indexed keywords

ANTINUCLEAR ANTIBODY; AUTOANTIBODY; CENTROMERE ANTIBODY; COTRIMOXAZOLE; PENICILLAMINE; PREDNISOLONE;

ADULT; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DISEASE COURSE; DRUG RESPONSE; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; PNEUMOCYSTIS PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAYNAUD PHENOMENON; SCLERODERMA; SYSTEMIC SCLEROSIS; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

EID: 4444323417     PISSN: 07703198     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10067-004-0876-9     Document Type: Article

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