Severe oral chronic graft-versus-host disease following allogeneic bone marrow transplantation: Highly effective treatment with topical tacrolimus

Oral Oncology

Volumn 40, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 811-814

  Eckardt, André ^a   Starke, Oliver ^a   Stadler, Michael ^b   Reuter, Christoph ^b   Hertenstein, Bernd ^b  

^a HANNOVER MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Germany)

^b Bone Marrow Transplant U H ^*  (Germany)

Author keywords

Bone marrow transplantation; Oral graft versus host disease; Tacrolimus

Indexed keywords

BUSULFAN; CORTICOSTEROID; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; CYCLOSPORIN; FLUDARABINE; TACROLIMUS;

ADULT; ALLOGENIC BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; GRAFT VERSUS HOST REACTION; HLA SYSTEM; HUMAN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; MALE; MOUTH DISEASE; MOUTH MUCOSA; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADMINISTRATION, TOPICAL; ADULT; CHRONIC DISEASE; FEMALE; GRAFT VS HOST DISEASE; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; HUMANS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; LEUKEMIA; LEUKEMIA, LYMPHOCYTIC, CHRONIC; LEUKEMIA, MYELOID, CHRONIC; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOUTH DISEASES; TACROLIMUS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 4043174856     PISSN: 13688375     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.oraloncology.2004.02.003     Document Type: Article

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