Necrobiotic xanthogranuloma successfully treated with autologous stem cell transplantation

Annals of Hematology

Volumn 86, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 303-306

  Goede, Jeroen S ^a   Misselwitz, Benjamin ^a   Taverna, Christian ^b   Schanz, Urs ^a   Dispenzieri, Angela ^c   Hummel, Yvonne ^d   Trüeb, Ralph M ^e   Fehr, Jörg ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b Cantonal Hospital Thurgau Münsterlingen   (Switzerland)

^c MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

^d TRIEMLI HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

^e UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Autologous transplantation; Blindness; Hematopoieticstem cell transplantation; Necrobioticxanthogranuloma; Paraprotein

Indexed keywords

ALPHA INTERFERON; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; DEXAMETHASONE; MELPHALAN; THALIDOMIDE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOLOGOUS STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; BLINDNESS; CASE REPORT; CHEMOTHERAPY; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE DURATION; DRUG MEGADOSE; EYELID DISEASE; FATIGUE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MALE; NECROBIOTIC DISORDER; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PARAPROTEINEMIA; PLASMAPHERESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREATMENT WITHDRAWAL; XANTHOGRANULOMA;

ADULT; HUMANS; MALE; NECROBIOTIC DISORDERS; SKIN DISEASES; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; TRANSPLANTATION, AUTOLOGOUS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33847642106     PISSN: 09395555     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00277-006-0231-0     Document Type: Article

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