Cytophagic histiocytic panniculitis improved by combined CHOP and cyclosporin A treatment

Internal Medicine

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 296-301

  Ito, Masayuki ^a   Ohira, Hiromasa ^a   Miyata, Masayuki ^a   Suzuki, Tomohiro ^a   Sato, Yukio ^a   Kaise, Shunji ^a   Nishimaki, Tomoe ^a   Sakuma, Hiroshi ^b   Nihei, Yoshimichi ^a   Iwatsuki, Keiji ^a   Kasukawa, Reiji ^a  

^a FUKUSHIMA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Saiseikai Kawamata Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

Homophagocytic syndrome; Panniculitis; T cell disorder

Indexed keywords

CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; CYCLOSPORIN A; DOXORUBICIN; PREDNISOLONE; VINCRISTINE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; DRUG EFFECT; FAT NECROSIS; FEVER; HISTIOCYTOSIS; HUMAN; MALE; PANNICULITIS; PHAGOCYTOSIS; REMISSION; SUBCUTANEOUS NODULE;

EID: 0033025428     PISSN: 09182918     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2169/internalmedicine.38.296     Document Type: Article

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