A 55-year-old woman with thymoma and hypogammaglobulinemia (good syndrome), ulcerative colitis, and cytomegalovirus infection;55-jährige Patientin mit Thymom und Hypogammaglobulinämie (Good-syndrom), Colitis Ulcerosa Sowie CMV-infektion

Medizinische Klinik

Volumn 104, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 150-154

  Kahraman, Alisan ^a   Miller, Michael ^a   Maldonado Lopez, Evelyn ^a   Baba, Hideo A ^a   Treichel, Ulrich ^b   Gerken, Guido ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ESSEN   (Germany)

^b Asklepios Klinik Wandsbek   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cytomegalovirus; Good syndrome; Thymoma; Ulcerative colitis

Indexed keywords

AZATHIOPRINE; CIDOFOVIR; FOSCARNET SODIUM; GANCICLOVIR; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID 2 MORPHOLINOETHYL ESTER; STEROID;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTION; ENTERITIS; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HUMORAL IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN DEFICIENCY; LEUKOPENIA; REMISSION; THYMOMA; ULCERATIVE COLITIS;

AGAMMAGLOBULINEMIA; ANTIVIRAL AGENTS; AZATHIOPRINE; COLITIS, ULCERATIVE; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTIONS; CYTOSINE; ENTERITIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNIZATION, PASSIVE; IMMUNOLOGIC DEFICIENCY SYNDROMES; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; LEUKOPENIA; MIDDLE AGED; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID; NEOPLASM STAGING; OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTIONS; PHOSPHONIC ACIDS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; SYNDROME; THYMECTOMY; THYMOMA; THYMUS NEOPLASMS;

CYTOMEGALOVIRUS;

EID: 61849137195     PISSN: 07235003     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00063-009-1026-6     Document Type: Article

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