Extracorporeal photochemotherapy for treatment of fasciitis in chronic graft-versus-host disease [2]

Bone Marrow Transplantation

Volumn 33, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 869-870

  Sbano, P ^a   Rubegni, P ^a   De Aloe, G B ^a   Guidi, S ^b   Fimiani, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SIENA   (Italy)

^b Hematology Department   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYCLOSPORIN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT; PREDNISONE;

ADULT; ALLOGENEIC HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; B CELL LYMPHOMA; BLOOD ANALYSIS; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FASCIITIS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GRAFT VERSUS HOST REACTION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; LABORATORY TEST; LETTER; NONHODGKIN LYMPHOMA; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PHOTOCHEMOTHERAPY; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

CHRONIC DISEASE; FASCIITIS; FEMALE; GRAFT VS HOST DISEASE; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; HUMANS; LYMPHOMA, B-CELL; MIDDLE AGED; PHOTOPHERESIS;

EID: 1942474289     PISSN: 02683369     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.bmt.1704436     Document Type: Letter

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