Recurrent steroid-responsive pancreatitis associated with myelodysplastic syndrome and transformations

Leukemia and Lymphoma

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 151-154

  Tanvetyanon, Tawee ^a   Stiff, Patrick J ^b  

^a Division of Hematology/Oncology   (United States)

^b LOYOLA UNIVERSITY CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Autoimmunity; Leukemia; Myelodysplasia; Pancreatitis; Paraneoplastic

Indexed keywords

AMYLASE; ANALGESIC AGENT; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CD33 ANTIGEN; CD34 ANTIGEN; CORTICOSTEROID; HEMOGLOBIN; HLA DR ANTIGEN; HYDROCORTISONE; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; MICROSOMAL AMINOPEPTIDASE; MYELOPEROXIDASE; PREDNISONE; TRIACYLGLYCEROL LIPASE;

ACUTE GRANULOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; ACUTE PANCREATITIS; ADULT; AORTITIS; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; AUTOIMMUNITY; BLAST CELL; BONE MARROW BIOPSY; CANCER RELAPSE; CASE REPORT; CAUCASIAN; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DEATH; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE EXACERBATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG DOSE REGIMEN; DRUG MEGADOSE; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; FATIGUE; FEVER; HUMAN; MALE; MYELODYSPLASTIC SYNDROME; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARANEOPLASTIC SYNDROME; PERICARDITIS; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOCYST; RECURRENT DISEASE; REFRACTORY ANEMIA; SEPSIS; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; VASCULAR DISEASE;

ABDOMEN; ADULT; CELL TRANSFORMATION, NEOPLASTIC; HUMANS; MALE; MYELODYSPLASTIC SYNDROMES; PANCREATITIS; RECURRENCE; STEROIDS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 12744271995     PISSN: 10428194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10428190400011617     Document Type: Article

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