Increased disease activity in a patient with sarcoidosis after high dose interleukin 2 treatment for metastatic renal cancer

Thorax

Volumn 60, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 610-611

  Logon, T F ^a   Bensadoun, E S ^b,c  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CALCITRIOL; HYDROXYCHLOROQUINE; INTERLEUKIN 2;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; DISEASE ACTIVITY; DISEASE EXACERBATION; FEVER; HUMAN; HYPERCALCEMIA; KIDNEY CARCINOMA; MALE; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SARCOIDOSIS;

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; CARCINOMA, RENAL CELL; HUMANS; INTERLEUKIN-2; KIDNEY NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SARCOIDOSIS, PULMONARY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 22044456310     PISSN: 00406376     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/thx.2004.024018     Document Type: Article

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