Diabetes insipidus followed, after 4 years, with dysarthria and mild right-sided hemiparesis - The first clinical signs of Erdheim-Chester disease. Description and depiction of a case with a review of information on the disease;Diabetes insipidus, následovaný po 4 letech dysartrií a lehkou pravostrannou hemiparézou - První klinické příznaky Erdheimovy-Chesterovy nemoci. Popis a zobrazení případu s přehledem informací o této nemoci

Vnitrni Lekarstvi

Volumn 55, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 1173-1188

  Adam, Zdeněk ^a   Balsikova K ^b   Pour, L ^a   Krejci M ^a   Svacina P ^b   Dufek, M ^c   Kren L ^b   Hermanova M ^c   Moulis, M ^b   Vanicek J ^c   Neubauer, J ^b   Mechl, M ^b   Prasek J ^b   Stanicek J ^d   Koukalova R ^d   Hajek R ^a   Mayer, J ^a  

^a MASARYK UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BRNO   (Czech Republic)

^c ST ANNE S UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Czech Republic)

^d Odd lení PET CT Masarykova Onkologického Ústavu Brno   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

2 chlorodeoxyadenosine; Cladribin; Erdheim Chester disease; Juvenile xanthogranuloma; Multiple myeloma; Osteosclerosis; PET CT; Retroperitoneal fibrosis; Skeletal scinigraphy

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CD68 ANTIGEN; CLADRIBINE; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; DESMOPRESSIN; ETOPOSIDE; FIBRINOGEN; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE; GRANULOCYTE COLONY STIMULATING FACTOR; PROTEIN S 100; T6 ANTIGEN;

ABDOMINAL AORTA; AORTA WALL; ARTICLE; BONE DENSITY; BONE MARROW; BONE SCINTISCANNING; BONE STRUCTURE; BONES OF THE ARM AND HAND; BRAIN; CASE REPORT; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CHEMOTHERAPY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIABETES INSIPIDUS; DUAL ENERGY X RAY ABSORPTIOMETRY; DYSARTHRIA; ERDHEIM CHESTER DISEASE; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; HEMIPARESIS; HISTIOCYTE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; ILIAC BONE; IMMUNOPHENOTYPING; INFUNDIBULUM; LEG; LEUKOCYTOSIS; LUMBAR VERTEBRA; MALE; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OSTEOSCLEROSIS; PELVIC GIRDLE; PERIPHERAL BLOOD STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RETROPERITONEUM; SKULL; SPINE; THORACIC AORTA; THROMBOCYTOSIS;

ADULT; DIABETES INSIPIDUS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DYSARTHRIA; ERDHEIM-CHESTER DISEASE; HUMANS; MALE; PARESIS;

EID: 74749099784     PISSN: 0042773X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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