A case of adult-onset Still's disease complicated by hemophagocytic syndrome and interstitial pneumonia with pneumomediastinum/recurrent pneumothorax

International Journal of Rheumatic Diseases

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2012, Pages

  Fujii, Kenji ^a   Kitamura, Yuichi ^a   Osugi, Yasuhiro ^a   Koyama, Yoshinobu ^a   Ota, Toshiyuki ^a  

^a ASO IIZUKA HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYCLOSPORIN A; PREDNISOLONE;

ADULT ONSET STILL DISEASE; ARTHRALGIA; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; ERYTHEMA; FEVER; HEMOPHAGOCYTIC SYNDROME; INTERSTITIAL PNEUMONIA; JAPANESE; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; LETTER; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PNEUMOMEDIASTINUM; PNEUMOTHORAX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT DISEASE;

ANTIRHEUMATIC AGENTS; CYCLOSPORINE; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; FEMALE; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; HUMANS; LUNG DISEASES, INTERSTITIAL; LYMPHOHISTIOCYTOSIS, HEMOPHAGOCYTIC; MEDIASTINAL EMPHYSEMA; MIDDLE AGED; PNEUMOTHORAX; PREDNISOLONE; RECURRENCE; STILL'S DISEASE, ADULT-ONSET; THORACIC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84865305821     PISSN: 17561841     EISSN: 1756185X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1756-185X.2011.01691.x     Document Type: Letter

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