Pseudo-pseudo Meigs syndrome developed under the leflunomide therapy

Rheumatology International

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 521-523

  Bes, Cemal ^a   Soy, Mehmet ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Leflunomide; SLE; Tjalma syndrome

Indexed keywords

ANTINUCLEAR ANTIBODY; CA 125 ANTIGEN; COMPLEMENT COMPONENT C3; COMPLEMENT COMPONENT C4; DEFLAZACORT; DOUBLE STRANDED DNA ANTIBODY; HYDROXYCHLOROQUINE; LEFLUNOMIDE; METHOTREXATE; METHYLPREDNISOLONE;

ADD ON THERAPY; ADULT; ARTICLE; ASCITES; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIARRHEA; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DYSPNEA; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FEVER; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; KIDNEY FUNCTION; LABORATORY TEST; LEUKOPENIA; LYMPHOPENIC LEUKOPENIA; PALLOR; PERICARDIAL EFFUSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDO-MEIGS SYNDROME; PULSE RATE; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SJOEGREN SYNDROME; SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TJALMA SYNDROME; VOMITING; WEAKNESS;

ANTIRHEUMATIC AGENTS; ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; CA-125 ANTIGEN; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; ISOXAZOLES; MEIGS SYNDROME; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 79954449459     PISSN: 01728172     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00296-009-1190-2     Document Type: Article

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