Muscle weakness in a girl with autoimmune hepatitis and Graves' disease

European Journal of Pediatrics

Volumn 168, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 241-243

  Sarkhy, Ahmed ^a   Persad, Rabindranath ^b   Tarnopolsky, Mark ^a  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Autoimmune hepatitis; Grave's disease; Myasthenia gravis

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN;

ADOLESCENT; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNE HEPATITIS; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE COURSE; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GRAVES DISEASE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LIVER BIOPSY; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; MYASTHENIA GRAVIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THYROTOXICOSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AUTOANTIBODIES; COMORBIDITY; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GRAVES DISEASE; HEPATITIS, AUTOIMMUNE; HUMANS; IMMUNIZATION, PASSIVE; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; IODINE RADIOISOTOPES; LIVER FUNCTION TESTS; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; MYASTHENIA GRAVIS; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; PREDNISONE; RECEPTORS, NICOTINIC; THYROID FUNCTION TESTS;

EID: 58149085387     PISSN: 03406199     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00431-008-0738-6     Document Type: Article

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