Noncrescentic ANCA-associated renal crisis in systemic sclerosis

Clinical Nephrology

Volumn 70, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 183-185

  Mimura, I ^a   Hori, Y ^a   Matsukawa, T ^a   Uozaki, H ^b   Tojo, A ^a   Fujita, T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTINUCLEAR ANTIBODY; CREATININE; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; NEUTROPHIL CYTOPLASMIC ANTIBODY; PREDNISOLONE;

AFFERENT LOOP SYNDROME; AGED; ANAMNESIS; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; DRUG MEGADOSE; DYSPNEA; EDEMA; ERYTHEMA; FEMALE; FEVER; FOOT PAIN; FOOT SOLE; HEMATURIA; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; KIDNEY FAILURE; LETTER; LEUKOCYTOCLASTIC VASCULITIS; LOW DRUG DOSE; MICROTHROMBUS; NECROTIZING ARTERITIS; NEUTROPHIL CHEMOTAXIS; PLEURA EFFUSION; PROTEINURIA; SCLERODERMA RENAL CRISIS; SKIN BIOPSY; SYSTEMIC SCLEROSIS; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; URINALYSIS; VASCULAR NECROSIS;

EID: 48749106209     PISSN: 03010430     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5414/cnp70183     Document Type: Letter

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