Case 19-2006: A 22-month-old boy with the rapid growth of subcutaneous nodules

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 354, Issue 25, 2006, Pages

  Whelan, J Patrick ^a,b   Zembowicz, Artur ^a,b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE;

ARTICLE; BENIGN TUMOR; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYST; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ERYTHEMA NODOSUM; GRANULOMA ANNULARE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; INTERSTITIAL LUNG DISEASE; LABORATORY TEST; LONG TERM CARE; LUNG DISEASE; LUNG FUNCTION; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; MICROPHOTOGRAPHY; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RHEUMATOID NODULE; SCLERODERMA; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; SYSTEMIC SCLEROSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNSPECIFIED SIDE EFFECT; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL OBSERVATION; CLINICAL STUDY; DIAGNOSIS; INFANT; MALE; PATHOLOGY; SKIN; SKIN DISEASE; SKIN TUMOR; SYNOVIAL CYST;

DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; GRANULOMA ANNULARE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; RHEUMATOID NODULE; SKIN; SKIN DISEASES; SKIN NEOPLASMS; SYNOVIAL CYST;

EID: 33745264430     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMcpc069010     Document Type: Article

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