Successful treatment of relapsing neuro-Sweet's disease with corticosteroid and dapsone combination therapy

Clinical Neurology and Neurosurgery

Volumn 109, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 910-913

  Fukae, Jiro ^a   Noda, Kazuyuki ^a   Fujishima, Kenji ^a   Wada, Ryo ^a   Yoshiike, Takashi ^a   Hattori, Nobutaka ^b   Okuma, Yasuyuki ^a  

^a JUNTENDO UNIVERSITY SHIZUOKA HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b JUNTENDO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Corticosteroid; Cytokines; Dapsone; Neuro Sweet's disease; Relapse

Indexed keywords

ACICLOVIR; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; BETAMETHASONE; CORTICOSTEROID; DAPSONE; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; PREDNISONE;

ACUTE FEBRILE NEUTROPHILIC DERMATOSIS; ADULT; ARTICLE; BIOCHEMISTRY; BLOOD PRESSURE; CASE REPORT; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID ANALYSIS; DERMATOLOGY; DISORIENTATION; DRUG DOSE ESCALATION; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EPIDERMIS; FOOT AND MOUTH DISEASE; HEART RATE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; JAPANESE; MALE; MEMORY DISORDER; MENINGOENCEPHALITIS; MICROSCOPY; NEUTROPHIL; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PLEOCYTOSIS; RECURRENT DISEASE; SKIN BIOPSY; VASCULITIS;

ADMINISTRATION, ORAL; ADULT; ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS; BIOPSY; BRAIN; DAPSONE; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; DRUG ADMINISTRATION SCHEDULE; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; HUMANS; INFUSIONS, INTRAVENOUS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MENINGOENCEPHALITIS; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; PREDNISOLONE; RECURRENCE; SKIN; SWEET'S SYNDROME;

EID: 35348945256     PISSN: 03038467     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clineuro.2007.07.025     Document Type: Article

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