Unusual manifestation of Erdheim-Chester disease

BMC Gastroenterology

Volumn 11, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Pan, Antony ^a   Doyle, Terence ^b,c   Schlup, Martin ^a,c   Lubcke, Ralf ^a   Schultz, Michael ^a,c  

^a SOUTHERN DISTRICT HEALTH BOARD   (New Zealand)

^b University of Otago ^*  (New Zealand)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CD68 ANTIGEN; FERRITIN; HEMOGLOBIN; HYDROCORTISONE; IRON; PREDNISONE; PROTEIN S 100; T6 ANTIGEN; TRANSFERRIN;

AGED; ANEMIA; ANKLE EDEMA; ARTICLE; BONE MARROW BIOPSY; CACHEXIA; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COUGHING; DECREASED APPETITE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; DRUG SUBSTITUTION; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; ERDHEIM CHESTER DISEASE; FATALITY; FEMUR; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; FORCED VITAL CAPACITY; GIANT CELL; HEPATOMEGALY; HISTIOCYTE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPOALBUMINEMIA; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INFLAMMATORY CELL; IRON BLOOD LEVEL; LAPAROTOMY; LETHARGY; LIVER BIOPSY; LUNG DIFFUSION CAPACITY; LUNG INFILTRATE; LYMPH NODE BIOPSY; MALE; MESENTERY LYMPH NODE; NAUSEA; PARENTERAL NUTRITION; PERITONEAL BIOPSY; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; TIBIA; VOMITING; WEIGHT REDUCTION; WHOLE BODY MRI; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASE; MORTALITY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

AGED; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ERDHEIM-CHESTER DISEASE; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASES; HUMANS; HYDROCORTISONE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; PREDNISONE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 79959342240     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1471230X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-230X-11-77     Document Type: Article

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