Extracorporeal monocyte granulocytapheresis was effective for a patient of erythema nodosum concomitant with ulcerative colitis

Therapeutic Apheresis

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 122-126

  Fukunaga, Ken ^a   Sawada, Koji ^a   Fukuda, Yoshihiro ^a   Matoba, Yoshika ^a   Natsuaki, Masaru ^a   Ohnishi, Kunio ^a   Fukui, Shin ^a   Satomi, Masamichi ^a   Shimoyama, Takashi ^a  

^a HYOGO COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Erythema nodosum; Extracorporeal circulation; Granulocytapheresis; Immunomodulation; Inflammatory bowel disease; Ulcerative colitis

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID; MESALAZINE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CYTAPHERESIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DRUG MEGADOSE; ERYTHEMA NODOSUM; EXTRACORPOREAL CIRCULATION; GRANULOCYTE; HUMAN; IMMUNOMODULATION; INFLAMMATION; LONG TERM CARE; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ULCERATIVE COLITIS;

ADULT; COLITIS, ULCERATIVE; COLONOSCOPY; ERYTHEMA NODOSUM; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GRANULOCYTES; HUMANS; LEUKAPHERESIS; LOWER EXTREMITY; MALE; MONOCYTES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0037764964     PISSN: 10916660     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1526-0968.2003.00002.x     Document Type: Article

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