Treating refractory chronic graft-versus-host disease with extracorporeal photochemotherapy

Bone Marrow Transplantation

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 291-294

  Bisaccia, Emil ^a,b   Palangio, M ^b   Gonzalez, J ^b   Adler, K R ^b   Rowley, S D ^c   Goldberg, S L ^c  

^a Columbia Univ Coll of Phys/Surg ^*  (United States)

^b MORRISTOWN MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c HACKENSACK UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Allogeneic bone marrow transplatation; Chronic graft versus host disease; Extracorporeal photochemotherapy; Photopheresis

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CYCLOSPORIN A; HYDROXYCHLOROQUINE; LIVER ENZYME; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID 2 MORPHOLINOETHYL ESTER; PREDNISONE; PSORALEN; TACROLIMUS; THALIDOMIDE;

ACUTE GRANULOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; ACUTE LYMPHOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; ADULT; ALLOGENIC BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION; ARTHRALGIA; ARTICLE; CHRONIC GRAFT REJECTION; CHRONIC MYELOID LEUKEMIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GRAFT VERSUS HOST REACTION; HUMAN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; MALE; MOUTH ULCER; NONHODGKIN LYMPHOMA; PHOTOCHEMOTHERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUVA; RECURRENT DISEASE; SCLERODERMA; SKIN MANIFESTATION; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; ULTRAVIOLET A RADIATION;

ADULT; CHRONIC DISEASE; CYCLOSPORINE; FICUSIN; GRAFT VS HOST DISEASE; HISTOCOMPATIBILITY TESTING; HUMANS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; MIDDLE AGED; PHOTOCHEMOTHERAPY; PREDNISONE; ULTRAVIOLET RAYS;

EID: 0037296881     PISSN: 02683369     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.bmt.1703830     Document Type: Article

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