Results of treatment of 127 patients with systemic histiocytosis (letterer-siwe syndrome, schuller-christian syndrome and multifocal eosinophilic granuloma)

Medicine (United States)

Volumn 60, Issue 5, 1981, Pages 311-338

  Greenberger, Joel S ^a   Crocker, Allen C ^b   Vawter, Gordon ^b,c   Jaffe, Norman ^b,c   Robert Cassady, J ^b  

^a HARVARD RADIATION ONCOLOGY PROGRAM   (United States)

^b BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c DANA FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINOANFOL; CHLORAMBUCIL; CHLORMETHINE; CORTICOTROPIN; CORTISONE; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; CYTOSTATIC AGENT; DACTINOMYCIN; HYDROCORTISONE; MERCAPTOPURINE; METHOTREXATE; PREDNISONE; PROCARBAZINE; THIOTEPA; TRIAMCINOLONE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VINBLASTINE; VINBLASTINE SULFATE;

ABT LETTERER SIWE DISEASE; ACUTE LEUKEMIA; ADVERSE DRUG REACTION; ARTICLE; BONE; CARCINOGENESIS; DRUG THERAPY; ENDOCRINE SYSTEM; EOSINOPHILIC GRANULOMA; HISTIOCYTOSIS; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; THERAPY; THYROID CANCER;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CURETTAGE; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HISTIOCYTOSIS, LANGERHANS-CELL; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; PREDNISONE; PROGNOSIS; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE;

EID: 0019855111     PISSN: 00257974     EISSN: 15365964     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00005792-198109000-00001     Document Type: Article

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