Central nervous system graft-versus-host disease presenting with granulomatous encephalitis [4]

Bone Marrow Transplantation

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 183-184

  Kew, A K ^a   Macaulay, R ^a   Burrell, S ^a   Rubin, S ^b   Dow, G ^b   Couban, S ^a  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b MONCTON HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUSULFAN; CD3 ANTIGEN; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; CYCLOSPORIN; DEXAMETHASONE; DOXORUBICIN; FLUDARABINE; GADOLINIUM; GALLIUM 67; METHOTREXATE; MITOXANTRONE; PREDNISONE; RITUXIMAB; VINCRISTINE;

ADULT; ALLOGENEIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; ARM WEAKNESS; BRAIN BIOPSY; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN EDEMA; CANCER REGRESSION; CANCER RELAPSE; CASE REPORT; CHRONIC GRAFT VERSUS HOST DISEASE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; ENCEPHALITIS; FOLLICULAR LYMPHOMA; GRANULOMATOUS ENCEPHALITIS; GRANULOMATOUS INFLAMMATION; GRAY MATTER; HEMIPARESIS; HLA MATCHING; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INFLAMMATORY INFILTRATE; LETTER; MALE; MOLECULAR IMAGING; MULTIPLE CYCLE TREATMENT; MYELOABLATIVE CONDITIONING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARESTHESIA; PARIETAL LOBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT COURSE THERAPY; SIBLING; TREATMENT RESPONSE;

ADULT; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; CHRONIC DISEASE; ENCEPHALITIS; GRAFT VS HOST DISEASE; GRANULOMA; HUMANS; LYMPHOMA, FOLLICULAR; MALE; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; TRANSPLANTATION, HOMOLOGOUS;

EID: 34447273866     PISSN: 02683369     EISSN: 14765365     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.bmt.1705709     Document Type: Letter

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