Resolution of Behçet's disease after HLA-mismatched unrelated cord blood transplantation for myelodysplastic syndrome

Annals of Hematology

Volumn 83, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 464-466

  Tomonari, Akira ^a   Tojo, Arinobu ^a   Takahashi, Tsutomu ^a   Iseki, Tohru ^a   Ooi, Jun ^a   Takahashi, Satoshi ^a   Nagamura, Fumitaka ^a   Uchimaru, Kaoru ^a   Asano, Shigetaka ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Beh et's disease; Cord blood transplantation; Myelodysplastic syndrome

Indexed keywords

COLCHICINE; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; CYCLOSPORIN; CYTARABINE; GRANULOCYTE COLONY STIMULATING FACTOR; METHOTREXATE; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; PREDNISOLONE;

ADULT; ALLOGENEIC HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; ANEMIA; ARTICLE; BEHCET DISEASE; CASE REPORT; CORD BLOOD STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; ERYTHEMA NODOSUM; FEMALE; FEVER; GENITAL ULCER; GRAFT VERSUS HOST REACTION; HLA MATCHING; HUMAN; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MOUTH ULCER; MYELODYSPLASTIC SYNDROME; NEUTROPENIA; PANCYTOPENIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WHOLE BODY RADIATION;

ADULT; ANEMIA, REFRACTORY, WITH EXCESS OF BLASTS; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASES; BEHCET SYNDROME; CORD BLOOD STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; CYCLOSPORINE; FEMALE; GRAFT VS HOST DISEASE; GRANULOCYTE COLONY-STIMULATING FACTOR; HISTOCOMPATIBILITY; HLA ANTIGENS; HUMANS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; TRANSPLANTATION CONDITIONING;

EID: 3042854038     PISSN: 09395555     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00277-003-0819-6     Document Type: Article

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