High prevalence of infections and autoimmunity in patients with thymoma

Human Immunology

Volumn 73, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 287-290

  Holbro, Andreas ^a   Jauch, Annaïse ^a   Lardinois, Didier ^a   Tzankov, Alexander ^b   Dirnhofer, Stephan ^b   Hess, Christoph ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BASEL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Autoimmunity; Good's syndrome; Immunodeficiency; Thymoma

Indexed keywords

AZATHIOPRINE; BLEOMYCIN; CISPLATIN; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; CYCLOSPORIN; DOXORUBICIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; PREDNISONE; RITUXIMAB;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNITY; BACTERIAL INFECTION; CANDIDIASIS; CD4+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CHEMORADIOTHERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HERPES ZOSTER; HUMAN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN BLOOD LEVEL; IMMUNOGLOBULIN DEFICIENCY; KIDNEY FAILURE; LICHEN PLANUS; LUNG EMBOLISM; LUNG NON SMALL CELL CANCER; LYMPHOCYTOPENIA; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; METASTASIS; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; MYASTHENIA GRAVIS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NEURALGIA; OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTION; PEMPHIGUS; PNEUMOTHORAX; POLYMYOSITIS; POLYRADICULONEUROPATHY; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGRESSIVE MULTIFOCAL LEUKOENCEPHALOPATHY; PURE RED CELL ANEMIA; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SARCOIDOSIS; SJOEGREN SYNDROME; SKIN LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS; SPLEEN INFARCTION; STROKE; THYMOMA; TREPONEMA PALLIDUM; TUBERCULOSIS; VARICELLA ZOSTER VIRUS;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INFECTION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; THYMOMA; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84857111603     PISSN: 01988859     EISSN: 18791166     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.humimm.2011.12.022     Document Type: Article

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