Successful Tumor Necrosis Factor α Blockade Treatment in Therapy-Resistant Sarcoidosis

Arthritis and Rheumatism

Volumn 48, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 3542-3543

  Ulbricht, Kai U ^a   Stoll, Matthias ^a   Bierwirth, Janine ^a   Witte, Torsten ^a   Schmidt, Reinhold E ^a  

^a HANNOVER MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AZATHIOPRINE; CORTICOSTEROID; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; INFLIXIMAB; METHOTREXATE; PENTOXIFYLLINE; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

ADULT; ARTHRITIS; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CORTICOSTEROID THERAPY; DISEASE CONTROL; DOSE RESPONSE; FEMALE; GRANULOMATOUS INFLAMMATION; HUMAN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; LIVER DISEASE; LOW DRUG DOSE; LUNG SARCOIDOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SARCOIDOSIS;

ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; ANTIRHEUMATIC AGENTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; SARCOIDOSIS; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR-ALPHA;

EID: 0346850596     PISSN: 00043591     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/art.11357     Document Type: Article

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