Kaposi's sarcoma in a patient with erythroblastopenia and thymoma: Reactivation after topical corticosteroids

Dermatology

Volumn 197, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 264-267

  Perez E ^a   Barnadas, María A ^a   Garcia Patos V ^a   Pedro, C ^b   Curell, R ^a   Sander, C A ^c   Kind, P ^c   De Moragas, J M ^a   Alomar, A ^a  

^a Department of Dermatology ^*  (Spain)

^b Department of Haematology   (Spain)

^c LUDWIG MAXIMILIANS UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Corticosteroids; Erythroblastopenia; Female; HHV 8; Kaposi's sarcoma; Thymoma

Indexed keywords

ALPHA2B INTERFERON; CORTICOSTEROID; METHYLPREDNISOLONE;

AGED; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; ERYTHROBLASTOPENIA; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN HERPESVIRUS 8; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; KAPOSI SARCOMA; LICHEN PLANUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THYMECTOMY; THYMOMA; TOPICAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION;

ADMINISTRATION, TOPICAL; AGED; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS; ERYTHROBLASTS; FEMALE; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; HUMANS; SARCOMA, KAPOSI; SKIN NEOPLASMS; THYMOMA; THYMUS NEOPLASMS; TRIAMCINOLONE;

EID: 0031695327     PISSN: 10188665     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000018010     Document Type: Article

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