Successful methotrexate therapy for adult still's disease with marked trombocytopenia

Clinical Rheumatology

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 256-257

  Yamaguchi, M ^a   Matsukawa, Y ^a   Takahashi, N ^a   Takei, M ^a   Tomita, Y ^a   Nishinarita, S ^a   Horie, T ^a  

^a NIHON UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Adult still's disease; Methotrexate; Prednisolone; Thrombocytopenia

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CORTICOSTEROID; CYTOKINE; FERRITIN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT; METHOTREXATE; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; PREDNISOLONE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; DRUG EFFICACY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMMUNOMODULATION; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; JUVENILE RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADMINISTRATION, ORAL; ADULT; ANTIMETABOLITES, ANTINEOPLASTIC; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; FEMALE; HUMANS; METHOTREXATE; STILL'S DISEASE, ADULT-ONSET; THROMBOCYTOPENIA;

EID: 0031868198     PISSN: 07703198     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF01451061     Document Type: Article

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