Atypical Cogan's syndrome with aortitis

Internal Medicine

Volumn 48, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 1093-1097

  Kondo, Yuya ^a   Ito, Satoshi ^a   Ohi, Yuichi ^a   Satou, Hideki ^a   Hiraoka, Takahiro ^a   Tsuboi, Hiroto ^a   Sugihara, Makoto ^a   Hayashi, Taichi ^a   Goto, Daisuke ^a   Matsumoto, Isao ^a   Sumida, Takayuki ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

Author keywords

Aortitis; Atypical Cogan's syndrome; Corticosteroid; Hearing loss; Scleritis

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; BETAMETHASONE; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; PREDNISOLONE;

ADULT; AORTA VALVE REGURGITATION; AORTITIS; ARTERIAL WALL THICKNESS; ARTICLE; CAROTID ARTERY BRUIT; CASE REPORT; COGAN SYNDROME; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORNEA OPACITY; EYE INFLAMMATION; EYE SYNECHIA; FEMALE; FEVER; HEARING LOSS; HUMAN; KERATITIS; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; REFRACTION ERROR; SCLERITIS; TINNITUS; UVEITIS; VERTIGO;

ADRENAL CORTEX HORMONES; AORTITIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; KERATITIS; MENIERE DISEASE; MIDDLE AGED; SYNDROME; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VESTIBULAR DISEASES;

EID: 67650069185     PISSN: 09182918     EISSN: 13497235     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2169/internalmedicine.48.1917     Document Type: Article

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