Increased frequency of posttransplant lymphomas in patients treated with cyclosporine, azathioprine, and prednisone

Transplantation

Volumn 47, Issue 2, 1989, Pages 293-296

  Wilkinson, Alan H ^a   Smith, John L ^a   Hunsicker, Lawrence G ^a   Tobacman, Joanne ^a   Kapelanski, David P ^a   Johnson, Maryl ^a   Wright, Francis H ^a   Behrendt, Douglas M ^a   Corry, Robert J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AZATHIOPRINE; CYCLOSPORIN A; LYMPHOCYTE ANTIBODY; OKT 3; PREDNISONE; THYMOCYTE ANTIBODY;

ADVERSE DRUG REACTION; B CELL LYMPHOMA; DRUG THERAPY; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADULT; AGED; AZATHIOPRINE; B-LYMPHOCYTES; CYCLOSPORINS; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; FEMALE; GRAFT REJECTION; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMAN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LYMPHOMA, SMALL-CELL; MALE; MIDDLE AGE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PREDNISONE; SPACE-TIME CLUSTERING; VIRUS DISEASES;

EID: 0024503989     PISSN: 00411337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00007890-198902000-00020     Document Type: Article

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