Lupus-associated vasculitis manifesting as acute appendicitis in a 16 year old girl

Pediatric Rheumatology

Volumn 6, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Cellini, Christina ^a   Hoda, Syed A ^a   Spigland, Nitsana ^a  

^a NEW YORK PRESBYTERIAN HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENALAPRIL MALEATE; LEVOTHYROXINE SODIUM; PREDNISONE;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ACUTE APPENDICITIS; ADOLESCENT; ANAMNESIS; APPENDECTOMY; APPENDIX; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DECREASED APPETITE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FAT NECROSIS; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; HYPOTHYROIDISM; LEUKOCYTOSIS; LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS NEPHRITIS; LUPUS VASCULITIS; LYMPHOCYTIC INFILTRATION; NEUTROPHIL CHEMOTAXIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMALL VESSEL VASCULITIS; SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS; URINALYSIS; VASCULITIS;

EID: 47949112516     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15460096     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1546-0096-6-10     Document Type: Article

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