Treatment of recurrent eosinophilic granuloma with systemic therapy

Ophthalmic Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 140-144

  Song, Alice ^a,b   Johnson, Thomas E ^a   Dubovy, Sander R ^a   Toledano, Stuart ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA HOSPITALS AND CLINICS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MERCAPTOPURINE; METHOTREXATE; PREDNISONE; VINBLASTINE;

ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CURETTAGE; EDEMA; EOSINOPHILIC GRANULOMA; EYE PAIN; EYE SURGERY; FROZEN SECTION; HISTIOCYTOSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LANGERHANS CELL; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ORBIT DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; SCHOOL CHILD; SYSTEMIC THERAPY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR BIOPSY; UPPER EYELID;

6-MERCAPTOPURINE; ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; CHILD; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; EOSINOPHILIC GRANULOMA; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; ORBITAL DISEASES; PREDNISONE; RECURRENCE; VINBLASTINE; X-RAYS;

EID: 0037347608     PISSN: 07409303     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.IOP.0000055980.85878.26     Document Type: Article

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