A difficult diagnosis [5]

Lancet

Volumn 364, Issue 9442, 2004, Pages 1313-1314

  Tervaert, Jan Willem Cohen ^a   Stegeman, Coen A ^b  

^a MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CEFTAZIDIME; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; FLUCONAZOLE; METHOTREXATE; STEROID; TOBRAMYCIN; NEUTROPHIL CYTOPLASMIC ANTIBODY;

BACTERIAL INFECTION; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CASE REPORT; DRUG INDUCED DISEASE; FEVER; HUMAN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN A NEPHROPATHY; LETTER; NOSE SEPTUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; SIDE EFFECT; TREATMENT FAILURE; WEGENER GRANULOMATOSIS; BLOOD; COCAINE DEPENDENCE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; IMMUNOLOGY; NOTE; PATHOLOGY;

ANTIBODIES, ANTINEUTROPHIL CYTOPLASMIC; COCAINE-RELATED DISORDERS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; HUMANS; NASAL SEPTUM; WEGENER GRANULOMATOSIS;

EID: 5044229681     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(04)17183-3     Document Type: Letter

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