Cutaneous sarcoid granulomas which developed around foreign bodies in a patient with chronic hepatitis C during treatment with alpha interferon and ribavirin;Granulomas sarcoideos cutáneos desarrollados alrededor de cuerpos extraños durante el tratamiento con interferón α y ribavirina en un paciente con hepatitis C crónica

Actas Dermo-Sifiliograficas

Volumn 94, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 655-659

  Álvarez Cuesta, César Cosme ^a,b   Blanco, Susana ^a   Rodríguez Diaz, Eloy ^a   Galache, Cristina ^a   Martínez Merino, Antonio ^a  

^a HOSPITAL DE CABUEÑES   (Spain)

^b NONE   (Spain)

Author keywords

Foreign bodies; Hepatitis C; Interferon; Ribavirin; Sarcoid granulomas

Indexed keywords

ALPHA2A INTERFERON; ANTIVIRUS AGENT; BACTERIAL DNA; BETA INTERFERON; INTERFERON; PEGINTERFERON ALPHA2B; RIBAVIRIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CHRONIC HEPATITIS; FOREIGN BODY; HEPATITIS C; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; KIDNEY CARCINOMA; LUNG SARCOIDOSIS; MALE; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SARCOIDOSIS; SKIN BIOPSY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VIRUS HEPATITIS;

EID: 0345872373     PISSN: 00017310     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0001-7310(03)76764-7     Document Type: Article

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