Carbamazepine-induced agammagloblinaemia clinically mimicking diffuse panbronchiolitis

BMJ Case Reports

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages

  Hoshino, Chisho ^a   Hoshi, Tadashige ^a  

^a OHTA NISHINOUCHI HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBAMAZEPINE; CEFOTAXIME; CLARITHROMYCIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN A; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; VALPROIC ACID;

ADULT; AGAMMAGLOBULINEMIA; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BRONCHIOLITIS; BRONCHUS DISEASE; CASE REPORT; COUGHING; DIFFUSE PANBRONCHIOLITIS; DISEASE CONTROL; DRUG BLOOD LEVEL; DRUG SUBSTITUTION; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; DYSPNEA; HIGH RESOLUTION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; LABORATORY TEST; LUNG BIOPSY; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEIZURE; SINOBRONCHIAL SYNDROME; SPUTUM CULTURE; TREATMENT DURATION;

EID: 79955453629     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1757790X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bcr.11.2010.3535     Document Type: Article

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