A case of cytophagic histiocytic panniculitis: Successful treatment of recurrent attacks with steroid pulse therapy and oral cyclosporin A

Clinical Rheumatology

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 417-421

  Nakane, S ^a   Kawabe, Y ^a   Eguchi, K ^a   Kita, A ^a   Mizokami, A ^a   Yamasaki, H ^a   Nagataki, S ^a  

^a NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cyclosporine A; Cytophagic Histiocytic Panniculitis; Ferritin; Steroid Pulse Therapy; Weber Christian Disease

Indexed keywords

CYCLOSPORIN A; FERRITIN; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE; LIVER ENZYME; STEROID;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD CLOTTING DISORDER; CASE REPORT; FERRITIN BLOOD LEVEL; FEVER; HEPATOSPLENOMEGALY; HISTIOCYTE; HISTIOCYTIC SKIN DISEASE; HISTIOCYTOSIS; HUMAN; JAUNDICE; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE BLOOD LEVEL; MACROPHAGE; MALAISE; MALE; PANCYTOPENIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STEROID THERAPY; SUBCUTANEOUS FAT DISORDER; WEBER CHRISTIAN PANNICULITIS;

ADULT; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS; BETAMETHASONE; BONE MARROW; CYCLOSPORINE; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; FERRITINS; HUMANS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; MALE; PANNICULITIS, NODULAR NONSUPPURATIVE; RECURRENCE; SKIN; STEROIDS;

EID: 0030759328     PISSN: 07703198     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02242462     Document Type: Article

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