Evaluation and differential diagnosis of marked, persistent Eosinophilia

Seminars in Hematology

Volumn 49, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 149-159

  Mejia, Rojelio ^a   Nutman, Thomas B ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ALLERGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; ADRENALIN; ALLOPURINOL; CARBAMAZEPINE; CEPHALOSPORIN DERIVATIVE; CORTICOSTEROID; CYCLOSPORIN; ESTROGEN; GLUCOCORTICOID; GRANULOCYTE MACROPHAGE COLONY STIMULATING FACTOR; HYDANTOIN; HYDROCHLOROTHIAZIDE; INTERLEUKIN 13; INTERLEUKIN 2; INTERLEUKIN 5; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; PENICILLIN DERIVATIVE; PHENYTOIN; PLATELET DERIVED GROWTH FACTOR ALPHA RECEPTOR; RANITIDINE; SALAZOSULFAPYRIDINE; TETRACYCLINE DERIVATIVE; TRYPTOPHAN;

ALLERGIC DISEASE; ALLERGIC RHINITIS; ANGIOFOLLICULAR LYMPH NODE HYPERPLASIA; ANGIONEUROTIC EDEMA; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; ATOPY; BULLOUS PEMPHIGOID; CELL ACTIVATION; CELL ACTIVITY; CELL FUNCTION; CHURG STRAUSS SYNDROME; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CYSTITIS; DERMATITIS HERPETIFORMIS; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE COURSE; DRUG HYPERSENSITIVITY; ENDOCRINE DISEASE; EOSINOPENIA; EOSINOPHIL; EOSINOPHIL COUNT; EOSINOPHILIA; EOSINOPHILIA MYALGIA SYNDROME; EOSINOPHILIC ESOPHAGITIS; EOSINOPHILIC FASCIITIS; EOSINOPHILIC GASTROENTERITIS; EOSINOPHILIC GASTROINTESTINAL DISORDER; EOSINOPHILIC PANNICULITIS; FOLLICULITIS; GRAFT VERSUS HOST REACTION; HEART DISEASE; HELMINTHIASIS; HEMATOLOGIC DISEASE; HEPATOBILIARY DISEASE; HUMAN; HYPEREOSINOPHILIA; HYPEREOSINOPHILIC SYNDROME; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; IMMUNOPATHOLOGY; INFECTION; INFLAMMATION; KIMURA DISEASE; LOEFFLER PNEUMONIA; LYMPHOMA; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; MALIGNANT TRANSFORMATION; MASTOCYTOSIS; MYELOPROLIFERATIVE DISORDER; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; PANNICULITIS; PATHOGENESIS; PEMPHIGOID GESTATIONIS; PEMPHIGUS VULGARIS; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REGULATORY MECHANISM; RHEUMATIC DISEASE; SOLID TUMOR; TOXIC OIL SYNDROME; UROGENITAL TRACT DISEASE; VASCULITIS; WELLS SYNDROME;

ANIMALS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; HUMANS; HYPEREOSINOPHILIC SYNDROME; HYPERSENSITIVITY; INFLAMMATION;

EID: 84858754351     PISSN: 00371963     EISSN: 15328686     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/j.seminhematol.2012.01.006     Document Type: Article

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