Miliary Tuberculosis, Late Onset Systemic Lupus Erythematosus and Corticosteroid Treatment: A Case Report
- 1 January 1981
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Acta Clinica Belgica
- Vol. 36 (2) , 101-104
- https://doi.org/10.1080/22953337.1981.11718790
Abstract
Summary A case is reported of a 59 year old man with late onset systemic lupus erythematosus, treated during six weeks with corticosteroids. A sudden deterioration occurred with sepsis and massive bilateral pulmonary infiltrates. The patient died shortly there after. At autopsy caseating miliary tuberculosis was found.This publication has 2 references indexed in Scilit:
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- APPEARANCE OF MILIARY TUBERCULOSIS FOLLOWING THERAPY WITH ACTH AND CORTISONE IN A CASE OF ACUTE DISSEMINATED LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUSAnnals of Internal Medicine, 1953