Successful treatment of refractory langerhans cell histiocytosis with unrelated cord blood transplantation

American Journal of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology

Volumn 23, Issue 9, 2001, Pages 629-632

  Nagarajan, Rajaram ^a   Neglia, Joseph ^a   Ramsay, Norma ^a   Scott Baker, K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Bone marrow transplant; Langerhans cell histiocytosis; Umbilical cord blood transplant

Indexed keywords

BUSULFAN; CARMUSTINE; CHLORMETHINE; CLADRIBINE; CYCLOSPORIN; CYCLOSPORIN A; CYTARABINE; DOXORUBICIN; ETOPOSIDE; LYMPHOCYTE ANTIBODY; MELPHALAN; MERCAPTOPURINE; METHOTREXATE; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; NIMUSTINE; PREDNISONE; THIOTEPA; THYMOCYTE ANTIBODY; VINBLASTINE;

ARTICLE; BONE MARROW DEPRESSION; CANCER COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER RESISTANCE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; GRAFT VERSUS HOST REACTION; HISTIOCYTOSIS X; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INFANT; INTERSTITIAL PNEUMONIA; LIVER FAILURE; LYMPHADENOPATHY; OTORRHEA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RASH; SKIN BIOPSY; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UMBILICAL CORD BLOOD TRANSPLANTATION;

6-MERCAPTOPURINE; BONE MARROW; CLADRIBINE; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; CYCLOSPORINE; CYTARABINE; DOXORUBICIN; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; ETOPOSIDE; FEMALE; FETAL BLOOD; GRAFT VS HOST DISEASE; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; HISTIOCYTOSIS, LANGERHANS-CELL; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; METHOTREXATE; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; PREDNISONE; REMISSION INDUCTION; TRANSPLANTATION, HOMOLOGOUS; VINBLASTINE;

EID: 0035690835     PISSN: 01928562     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00043426-200112000-00017     Document Type: Article

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