Resolution of late-onset asthma following high-dose chemotherapy

Bone Marrow Transplantation

Volumn 32, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 847-848

  Palmieri, C ^a   Gillmore, R ^a   Menzies Gow, A ^b   Fishpool, S ^a   Robinson, D ^b   Shaw, R ^c   Coombes, R C ^a  

^a CHARING CROSS HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b NATIONAL HEART AND LUNG INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^c ST MARY S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Asthma; Autologous stem cell transplatation; High dose chemotherapy

Indexed keywords

BUDESONIDE; CARBOPLATIN; CORTICOSTEROID; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; EPIRUBICIN; FLUOROURACIL; PREDNISOLONE; TAMOXIFEN; TERBUTALINE; THIOTEPA;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; AUTOLOGOUS HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; BREAST CANCER; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CASE REPORT; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG MEGADOSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; ONSET AGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYMPTOMATOLOGY;

ANTIBIOTICS, ANTINEOPLASTIC; ANTIMETABOLITES; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS, ALKYLATING; ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; ASTHMA; BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; EPIRUBICIN; FEMALE; FLUOROURACIL; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 1842481654     PISSN: 02683369     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.bmt.1704268     Document Type: Article

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