Treatment of extensive chronic sclerodermatous graft-versus-host disease with high-dose immunosuppressive therapy and CD34+ autologous stem cell rescue [4]

Blood

Volumn 98, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 892-893

  Arat, Mutlu ^a   Ilhan, Osman ^a   Iayan, Ender Akça ^a   Çelebl, Harika ^a   Koç, Haluk ^a   Akan, Hamdi ^a  

^a ANKARA UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CD34 ANTIGEN; COLLAGEN; CORTICOSTEROID; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; CYCLOSPORIN; CYCLOSPORIN A; CYTOKINE; ETRETINATE; GRANULOCYTE COLONY STIMULATING FACTOR; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT; LYMPHOCYTE ANTIBODY; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID 2 MORPHOLINOETHYL ESTER; PREDNISONE; THALIDOMIDE;

ADULT; AUTOTRANSPLANTATION; CASE REPORT; CHRONIC DISEASE; DETERIORATION; DISEASE COURSE; DRUG MEGADOSE; FOLLOW UP; GRAFT REJECTION; GRAFT VERSUS HOST REACTION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; ICHTHYOSIS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; LETTER; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUVA; QUALITY OF LIFE; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SCLERODERMA; SCLEROSIS; SKIN BIOPSY; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS; SYSTEMIC SCLEROSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0035437129     PISSN: 00064971     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1182/blood.V98.3.892     Document Type: Letter

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