47-year-old woman with six-week history of lower extremity weakness and eosinophilia

P C Lee; C D Gocke; E D Harris Jr; M E Anderson; C J Bergin; J M Price; J W Lindsey

47-year-old woman with six-week history of lower extremity weakness and eosinophilia

West J Med. 1992 May;156(5):517-22.

Authors

P C Lee¹, C D Gocke, E D Harris Jr, M E Anderson, C J Bergin, J M Price, J W Lindsey

Affiliation

¹ Department of Medicine, Stanford University Medical Center, CA 94305.

PMID: 1595277
PMCID: PMC1003315

Abstract

This discussion was selected from the Department of Medicine Morbidity and Mortality Conference held at the Stanford University Medical Center, Stanford, California, on January 9, 1991. The editor of the conference is Philip C. Lee, MD, Chief Resident, Department of Medicine.

Publication types

Case Reports
Clinical Conference

MeSH terms

Central Nervous System Diseases / complications
Churg-Strauss Syndrome / drug therapy
Churg-Strauss Syndrome / pathology*
Cyclophosphamide / therapeutic use
Eosinophilia / pathology
Female
Humans
Middle Aged
Neuromuscular Diseases / pathology

Substances

Cyclophosphamide