Editorial: Post-influenza vaccination vasculitides: A possible new entity

Journal of Clinical Rheumatology

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 269-270

  Zafrir, Yaron ^a   Agmon Levin, Nancy ^a   Shoenfeld, Yehuda ^a,b  

^a SHEBA MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIGEN; CORTICOSTEROID; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; INFLUENZA VACCINE; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID 2 MORPHOLINOETHYL ESTER; NEUTROPHIL CYTOPLASMIC ANTIBODY; DRUG DERIVATIVE; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID;

ADULT; AGED; ANCA ASSOCIATED VASCULITIS; AUTOIMMUNITY; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL STUDY; DIALYSIS; DISEASE COURSE; EDITORIAL; GUILLAIN BARRE SYNDROME; HEALTH; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INFLUENZA; INFLUENZA VACCINATION; INFLUENZA VIRUS A; INFLUENZA VIRUS B; LEUKOCYTOCLASTIC VASCULITIS; MEDICAL DOCUMENTATION; MEDICAL SOCIETY; MICROSCOPIC POLYANGIITIS; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; PEMPHIGUS VULGARIS; PHYSICIAN; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHEUMATIC DISEASE; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SEROLOGY; SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS; WEGENER GRANULOMATOSIS; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION; BLOOD; MIDDLE AGED;

ADRENAL CORTEX HORMONES; ADULT; AGED; ANTI-NEUTROPHIL CYTOPLASMIC ANTIBODY-ASSOCIATED VASCULITIS; ANTIBODIES, ANTINEUTROPHIL CYTOPLASMIC; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; HUMANS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; INFLUENZA VACCINES; MIDDLE AGED; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID;

EID: 70349086585     PISSN: 10761608     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/RHU.0b013e3181b56177     Document Type: Editorial

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