Disseminated Kaposi's sarcoma associated with idiopathic CD4+ lymphocytopenia and low dose steroid therapy

Clinical and Experimental Dermatology

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 395-397

  Fierro, M T ^a   Savoia, P ^a   Quaglino, P ^a   Novero, D ^a   Bernengo, M G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CD4 ANTIGEN; DAUNORUBICIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; PREDNISONE; STEROID;

AGED; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DEATH; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN HERPESVIRUS 8; IMMUNOGLOBULIN BLOOD LEVEL; KAPOSI SARCOMA; LONG TERM CARE; LOW DRUG DOSE; LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; LYMPHOCYTOPENIA; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; POLYARTHRITIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; SURVIVAL RATE;

AGED; CD4 LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; DRUG ADMINISTRATION SCHEDULE; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; HUMANS; PREDNISONE; SARCOMA, KAPOSI; SKIN NEOPLASMS; T-LYMPHOCYTOPENIA, IDIOPATHIC CD4-POSITIVE;

EID: 20644441013     PISSN: 03076938     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2230.2005.01795.x     Document Type: Article

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