Worsening of osteomalacia in a patient successfuly treated for neuro-Behçet's disease with infliximab

Clinical and Experimental Rheumatology

Volumn 26, Issue 4 SUPPL. 50, 2008, Pages

  Madanat, Wafa Y ^a,c   Madanat, A Y ^b  

^a JORDAN HOSPITAL   (Jordan)

^b Bashir Hospital   (Jordan)

^c NONE   (Jordan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALFACALCIDOL; ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE; AZATHIOPRINE; CALCITRIOL; CALCIUM; CORTICOSTEROID; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; CYCLOSPORIN; INFLIXIMAB; METHOTREXATE; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; PARATHYROID HORMONE; PHOSPHORUS; ANTIGOUT AGENT; COLCHICINE; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

ADULT; ARTHRITIS; BEHCET DISEASE; BONE SCINTISCANNING; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; DIPLOPIA; DIZZINESS; DRUG SUBSTITUTION; DRUG TREATMENT FAILURE; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; ERYTHEMA NODOSUM; FATIGUE; FEMALE; GENITAL ULCER; HEADACHE; HUMAN; LETTER; MENTAL CONCENTRATION; MOUTH ULCER; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OSTEOMALACIA; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REMISSION; SOMNOLENCE; THORAX PAIN; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; THROMBOPHLEBITIS; BRAIN DISEASE; BRAIN STEM; CHEMICALLY INDUCED DISORDER; DRUG ANTAGONISM; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY;

ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; BEHCET SYNDROME; BRAIN DISEASES; BRAIN STEM; COLCHICINE; FEMALE; GOUT SUPPRESSANTS; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; OSTEOMALACIA; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR-ALPHA;

EID: 59449084170     PISSN: 0392856X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Letter

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