Coma associated with scleromyxoedema and interferon alfa therapy. Full recovery after steroids and cyclophosphamide combined with plasmapheresis [17]

British Journal of Dermatology

Volumn 144, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 1283-1284

  Rongioletti, F ^a   Hazini, A ^a   Rebora, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA2B INTERFERON; CHLOROQUINE; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; ETRETINATE; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; STEROID;

ADULT; AGED; CARPAL TUNNEL SYNDROME; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE COURSE; DRUG INDUCED DISEASE; EDEMA; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FIBROBLAST; FUNCTIONAL DISEASE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN BLOOD LEVEL; KIDNEY FAILURE; LABORATORY TEST; LETTER; MALE; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NEUROTOXICITY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ONSET AGE; PATHOGENESIS; PLASMAPHERESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRURITUS; RASH; RIGIDITY; SCLEROMYXEDEMA; THROMBOSIS;

COMA; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERFERON ALFA-2B; MIDDLE AGED; MUCINOSES; PLASMAPHERESIS;

EID: 0035724062     PISSN: 00070963     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2133.2001.04261.x     Document Type: Letter

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