Febrile ulceronecrotic Mucha-Habermann's disease managed with methylprednisolone semipulse and subsequent methotrexate therapies

Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology

Volumn 49, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 1142-1148

  Ito, Natsuho ^a   Ohshima, Akihiro ^a   Hashizume, Hideo ^a   Takigawa, Masahiro ^a   Tokura, Yoshiki ^b  

^a HAMAMATSU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OCCUPATIONAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CEPHALOSPORIN; CORTICOSTEROID; CYCLOSPORIN; DAPSONE; MEROPENEM; METHOTREXATE; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; PENTAZOCINE; PREDNISOLONE; TOCORETINATE; VANCOMYCIN;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ABDOMINAL RADIOGRAPHY; ANAMNESIS; ANEMIA; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG PULSE THERAPY; FEBRILE ULCERONECROTIC MUCHA HABERMANN DISEASE; FEVER; GRAM NEGATIVE INFECTION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPOPROTEINEMIA; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LABORATORY TEST; MALE; OINTMENT; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PITYRIASIS LICHENOIDES; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RASH; SCHOOL CHILD; SKIN BIOPSY; SKIN NECROSIS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INFECTION; SYSTEMIC DISEASE; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0344430165     PISSN: 01909622     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0190-9622(03)00461-4     Document Type: Article

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