PR3-ANCA-positive necrotizing multi-organ vasculitis following cocaine abuse

Acta Dermato-Venereologica

Volumn 88, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 594-596

  Neynaber, Sven ^a   Mistry Burchardi, Nouhad ^b   Rust, Christian ^b   Samtleben, Walter ^b   Burgdorf, Walter H C ^a   Seitz, Michael Andreas ^a   Messer, Gerald ^a   Wollenberg, Andreas ^a  

^a LUDWIG MAXIMILIANS UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Immunoglobulin M deposits; Testicular vasculitis; Wegener's granulomatosis

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN A; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; MYELOBLASTIN; NEUTROPHIL CYTOPLASMIC ANTIBODY;

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL OBSERVATION; COCAINE DEPENDENCE; COUGHING; DYSPNEA; EPISTAXIS; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN DEPOSITION; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; JUGULAR VEIN; KIDNEY BIOPSY; KIDNEY DYSFUNCTION; MALE; NECROTIZING ARTERITIS; PAPULE; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAPIDLY PROGRESSIVE GLOMERULONEPHRITIS; RECURRENT DISEASE; SCROTAL PAIN; SKIN BIOPSY; SUBCLAVIAN VEIN; VEIN THROMBOSIS; WEGENER GRANULOMATOSIS;

ADULT; ANTIBODIES, ANTINEUTROPHIL CYTOPLASMIC; BIOPSY; COCAINE-RELATED DISORDERS; EMPHYSEMA; GLOMERULONEPHRITIS; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULINS; MALE; MYELOBLASTIN; PNEUMONIA; RENAL INSUFFICIENCY; SKIN; VENOUS THROMBOSIS; WEGENER GRANULOMATOSIS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 56749085667     PISSN: 00015555     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2340/00015555-0514     Document Type: Article

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