Psoriasis improved by intravenous immunoglobulin therapy

Internal Medicine

Volumn 45, Issue 14, 2006, Pages 879-880

  Taguchi, Yoshiharu ^a   Takashima, Shutaro ^a   Yoshida, Seiko ^a   Dougu, Nobuhiro ^a   Inoue, Hiroshi ^b   Tanaka, Kortaro ^a  

^a TOYAMA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOYAMA   (Japan)

Author keywords

Chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy; Intravenous immunoglobulin therapy; Psoriasis

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID; CYCLOSPORIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; PROTEIN; VITAMIN D DERIVATIVE;

ADULT; ANTIBODY TITER; ARTICLE; BLOOD ANALYSIS; CASE REPORT; CHRONIC INFLAMMATORY DEMYELINATING POLYNEUROPATHY; CORTICOSTEROID THERAPY; DOSE RESPONSE; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; HUMAN; IMMUNOELECTROPHORESIS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN BLOOD LEVEL; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; IMMUNOTHERAPY; MALE; MONOCLONAL IMMUNOGLOBULINEMIA; MOTOR NERVE CONDUCTION; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; PHOTOTHERAPY; PROTEIN CEREBROSPINAL FLUID LEVEL; PSORIASIS VULGARIS; SKIN EXAMINATION; TREATMENT FAILURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VITAMIN SUPPLEMENTATION;

HUMANS; IMMUNIZATION, PASSIVE; IMMUNOGLOBULINS, INTRAVENOUS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLYRADICULONEUROPATHY, CHRONIC INFLAMMATORY DEMYELINATING; PSORIASIS;

EID: 33747719306     PISSN: 09182918     EISSN: 13497235     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2169/internalmedicine.45.1704     Document Type: Article

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