Epidural abscess as a side effect of an immunosuppressive therapy treatment for bullous pemphigoid [2]

Journal of Dermatology

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 153-155

  Watabe, Daisuke ^a   Takahashi, Kazuhiro ^a   Tagami, Hachiro ^b   Akasaka, Toshihide ^a  

^a IWATE MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID; CYCLOSPORIN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT; MEPREDNISONE; PREDNISONE; VANCOMYCIN;

ADULT; ANTIBODY TITER; BACKACHE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BLOOD CULTURE; CASE REPORT; DRUG MEGADOSE; DRUG PULSE THERAPY; EPIDURAL ABSCESS; FEVER; HUMAN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; LAMINECTOMY; LETTER; MALE; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PEMPHIGOID; PLASMAPHERESIS;

DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; EPIDURAL ABSCESS; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; INFUSIONS, INTRAVENOUS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PEMPHIGOID, BULLOUS; RISK ASSESSMENT; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; THORACIC VERTEBRAE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VANCOMYCIN;

EID: 33644839219     PISSN: 03852407     EISSN: 13468138     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1346-8138.2006.00034.x     Document Type: Letter

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