Churg-Strauss syndrome in childhood: A rare form of systemic vasculitis posing a great diagnostic challenge

Clinical and Experimental Rheumatology

Volumn 29, Issue 1 SUPPL. 64, 2011, Pages

  Maritsi, Despoina ^a   Chavasse, R ^b   Pilkington, C A ^a   Eleftheriou, D ^a  

^a GREAT ORMOND STREET HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b EPSOM AND ST HELIER UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS NHS TRUST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AZATHIOPRINE; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; NEUTROPHIL CYTOPLASMIC ANTIBODY; PREDNISOLONE; CORTICOSTEROID; CYCLIC CITRULLINATED PEPTIDE ANTIBODY; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADOLESCENT; ARTHRALGIA; ARTHRITIS; ASTHMA; BONE MARROW BIOPSY; CASE REPORT; CAUCASIAN; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; CHURG STRAUSS SYNDROME; CORTICOSTEROID THERAPY; DIARRHEA; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE SEVERITY; DYSPNEA; EOSINOPHILIA; EOSINOPHILIC ESOPHAGITIS; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; ESOPHAGOGASTRODUODENOSCOPY; FEMALE; FEVER; HEPATOMEGALY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LETTER; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LOW DRUG DOSE; LUNG FUNCTION; LUNG INFILTRATE; LUNG INTERSTITIUM; LYMPHADENOPATHY; MALAISE; PARANASAL SINUSITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REMISSION; SKIN EDEMA; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; THROMBOCYTOSIS; VASCULITIC RASH; VOMITING; WHEEZING; FRONTAL SINUSITIS; HIGH RESOLUTION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; PLEURA EFFUSION; RASH;

ADOLESCENT; CHURG-STRAUSS SYNDROME; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 79960467152     PISSN: 0392856X     EISSN: 1593098X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Letter

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