Rapid healing of chronic leg ulcers during perilesional injections of granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor therapy in a patient with cutaneous polyarteritis nodosa [10]

Journal of the European Academy of Dermatology and Venereology

Volumn 20, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 1341-1343

  Tursen, U ^a   Api, H ^a   Kaya, T I ^a   Cinel, L ^a   Ikizoglu, G ^a  

^a MERSIN UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GRANULOCYTE MACROPHAGE COLONY STIMULATING FACTOR; MIELOGEN MOLGRAMOSTIN; PREDNISONE;

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; CASE REPORT; CHRONIC DISEASE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; DEBRIDEMENT; DRUG DOSE REGIMEN; ERYTHEMA; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; LEG ULCER; LETTER; POLYARTERITIS NODOSA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN BIOPSY; SKIN EXAMINATION; SKIN NECROSIS; ULCER HEALING;

ADULT; CHRONIC DISEASE; FEMALE; GRANULOCYTE-MACROPHAGE COLONY-STIMULATING FACTOR; HUMANS; INJECTIONS, INTRALESIONAL; LEG ULCER; POLYARTERITIS NODOSA; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 33750301916     PISSN: 09269959     EISSN: 14683083     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-3083.2006.01688.x     Document Type: Letter

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