Henoch-Schönlein purpura in an older man presenting as rectal bleeding and IgA mesangioproliferative glomerulonephritis: A case report

Journal of Medical Case Reports

Volumn 5, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Cheungpasitporn, Wisit ^a   Jirajariyavej, Teeranun ^a   Howarth, Charles B ^a   Rosen, Raquel M ^a  

^a BASSETT MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CIPROFLOXACIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN A; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; METRONIDAZOLE; PREDNISONE;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ABDOMINAL TENDERNESS; AGED; ANAPHYLACTOID PURPURA; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; DIVERTICULITIS; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; FOLLOW UP; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LEUKOCYTOCLASTIC VASCULITIS; MALE; MEMBRANOPROLIFERATIVE GLOMERULONEPHRITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PURPURIC RASH; RECTUM HEMORRHAGE; SKIN DEFECT;

EID: 81155157504     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17521947     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1752-1947-5-364     Document Type: Article

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