Ocular complications in a child with acute graft-versus-host disease following cord blood stem cell transplantation: Therapeutic challenges

Acta Ophthalmologica Scandinavica

Volumn 84, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 545-548

  Uchino, Miki ^a   Ogawa, Yoko ^a   Kawai, Masataka ^a   Shimada, Hiroyuki ^a   Kameyama, Kaori ^a   Okamoto, Shinichiro ^a   Dogru, Murat ^a   Tsubota, Kazuo ^a  

^a KEIO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cord blood stem cell transplantation; Corneal ulcer; Graft versus host disease; Pseudomembrane

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; ARTIFICIAL TEAR; LEVOFLOXACIN; MELPHALAN; MERCAPTOPURINE; METHOTREXATE; OFLOXACIN; PREDNISOLONE; STEROID; TACROLIMUS;

ACUTE GRAFT VERSUS HOST DISEASE; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONJUNCTIVITIS; CORD BLOOD STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; CORNEA ULCER; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG DOSE REGIMEN; EYE SURGERY; FLUORESCENCE ANALYSIS; FOLLOW UP; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; JUVENILE MYELOMONOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; MALE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT COURSE THERAPY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WHOLE BODY RADIATION;

ACUTE DISEASE; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CONJUNCTIVITIS; CORD BLOOD STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; CORNEAL ULCER; GRAFT VS HOST DISEASE; HUMANS; LEUKEMIA, MYELOID; MALE; OPHTHALMOLOGIC SURGICAL PROCEDURES;

EID: 33746281725     PISSN: 13953907     EISSN: 16000420     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0420.2006.00658.x     Document Type: Article

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