Sustained trilineage recovery and disappearance of abnormal chromosome clone in a patient with myelodysplastic syndrome following combination therapy with cytokines (granulocyte colony-stimulating factor and erythropoietin) and high-dose methylprednisolone

British Journal of Haematology

Volumn 93, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 146-150

  Imai, Yasufumi ^a   Fukuoka, Toshihiko ^a   Nakatani, Atsushi ^a   Ohsaka, Akimichi ^a   Takahashi, Atshushi ^a  

^a Hitachi   (Japan)

Author keywords

Erythropoietin; G CSF; MDS; Steroid pulse; Trilineage recovery

Indexed keywords

ERYTHROPOIETIN; GRANULOCYTE COLONY STIMULATING FACTOR; METHYLPREDNISOLONE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; HEMATOPOIESIS; HUMAN; MALE; MYELODYSPLASTIC SYNDROME; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS; CHROMOSOME DELETION; CYTOKINES; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; ERYTHROPOIETIN; GRANULOCYTE COLONY-STIMULATING FACTOR; HUMANS; KARYOTYPING; MALE; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; MIDDLE AGED; MYELODYSPLASTIC SYNDROMES;

EID: 0029874785     PISSN: 00071048     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2141.1996.460997.x     Document Type: Article

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