Liver sarcoidosis that presented with dysphagia

Internal Medicine

Volumn 47, Issue 13, 2008, Pages 1259-1261

  Samuraki, Miharu ^a   Nakahashi, Takuya ^a   Aoyama, Shou ^a   Hinoue, Yoshinobu ^a   Takahashi, Hirokazu ^a   Saito, Katsuhiko ^a   Hayashi, Shigeru ^a  

^a TOYAMA CITY HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Dysphagia; Liver biopsy; Sarcoidosis

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID; EDROPHONIUM CHLORIDE; GADOLINIUM; GALLIUM 67; PREDNISOLONE;

ADULT; AKINESIA; ARTICLE; BRAIN ARTERIOVENOUS MALFORMATION; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORTICOSTEROID INDUCED MYOPATHY; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; DYSARTHRIA; DYSESTHESIA; DYSPHAGIA; FEMALE; HUMAN; IRITIS; LIVER BIOPSY; LIVER GRANULOMA; LIVER SARCOIDOSIS; LYMPHADENOPATHY; MICROCYTIC ANEMIA; PAROTITIS; PYRAMIDAL SIGN; SARCOIDOSIS; SOFT PALATE; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; WEAKNESS; LIVER DISEASE; PARESTHESIA; PATHOLOGY;

ADULT; DEGLUTITION DISORDERS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIVER DISEASES; PARESTHESIA; SARCOIDOSIS;

EID: 49649102988     PISSN: 09182918     EISSN: 13497235     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2169/internalmedicine.47.1050     Document Type: Article

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