A case of Weber-Christian disease associated with myelodysplastic syndrome

Modern Rheumatology

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 73-76

  Hojo, Nobumasa ^a   Hasegawa, Hitoshi ^a   Iwamasa, Kikue ^a   Hojo, Satoko ^b   Fujita, Shigeru ^a  

^a EHIME UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b Daiichi Radiology Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cytokines; Lobular panniculitis; Myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS); Trisomy 8; Weber Christian disease (WCD)

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; FERRITIN; GAMMA INTERFERON; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA; INTERLEUKIN 2 RECEPTOR; INTERLEUKIN 6; IRON; PREDNISOLONE; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

AGED; ARTICLE; BONE MARROW BIOPSY; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ERYTHEMA; FERRITIN BLOOD LEVEL; FEVER; HUMAN; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IRON BLOOD LEVEL; KARYOTYPE; MALE; MYELODYSPLASTIC SYNDROME; NEUTROPHIL CHEMOTAXIS; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; REFRACTORY ANEMIA; SKIN BIOPSY; SKIN NODULE; T LYMPHOCYTE; TRISOMY; TRISOMY 14; TRISOMY 8; TRISOMY 9; WEBER CHRISTIAN PANNICULITIS;

EID: 20444374779     PISSN: 14397595     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10165-003-0270-5     Document Type: Article

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