Primary biliary cirrhosis complicated by polymyositis and pulmonary hypertension

Internal Medicine

Volumn 47, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 667-669

  Honma, Fumiko ^a   Shio, Kiori ^a   Monoe, Kyoto ^a   Kanno, Yukiko ^a   Takahashi, Atsushi ^a   Yokokawa, Junko ^a   Kobayashi, Hiroko ^a   Watanabe, Hiroshi ^a   Irisawa, Atsushi ^a   Ohira, Hiromasa ^a  

^a FUKUSHIMA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Polymyositis; Primary biliary cirrhosis; Pulmonary hypertension

Indexed keywords

ANTINUCLEAR ANTIBODY; CENTROMERE ANTIBODY; CREATINE KINASE; MITOCHONDRION ANTIBODY; PREDNISOLONE;

AGED; ANTIBODY TITER; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; LIVER DYSFUNCTION; LUNG SCINTISCANNING; MUSCLE BIOPSY; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; MYALGIA; PATIENT REFERRAL; POLYMYOSITIS; PRIMARY BILIARY CIRRHOSIS; PULMONARY HYPERTENSION; QUADRICEPS FEMORIS MUSCLE; BILIARY CIRRHOSIS;

AGED; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION, PULMONARY; LIVER CIRRHOSIS, BILIARY; POLYMYOSITIS;

EID: 44849108363     PISSN: 09182918     EISSN: 13497235     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2169/internalmedicine.47.0793     Document Type: Article

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