Colchicine therapy for low-dose-methotrexate-induced accelerated nodulosis in a rheumatoid arthritis patient

Journal of Dermatology

Volumn 26, Issue 10, 1999, Pages 691-694

  Abraham, Zeev ^b   Rozenbaum, Michael ^a   Rosner, Itzhak ^a  

^a BNAI ZION MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b Reish Policlinic ^*  (Israel)

Author keywords

Accelerated nodulosis; Colchicine; Methotrexate; Rheumatoid arthritis

Indexed keywords

COLCHICINE; HYDROXYCHLOROQUINE; METHOTREXATE; PREDNISONE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; METACARPOPHALANGEAL JOINT; METATARSOPHALANGEAL JOINT; MORNING STIFFNESS; POLYARTHRITIS; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SKIN NODULE;

EID: 0032758986     PISSN: 03852407     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1346-8138.1999.tb02074.x     Document Type: Article

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