Tissue eosinophils and the perils of using skin biopsy specimens to distinguish between drug hypersensitivity and cutaneous graft-versus-host disease

Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology

Volumn 51, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 543-546

  Marra, Diego E ^a   McKee, Phillip H ^a   Nghiem, Paul ^a,b  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b DANA FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUSULFAN; CLOFAZIMINE; CYCLOSPORIN; DACLIZUMAB; FLUDARABINE; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT; METHYLPREDNISOLONE SODIUM SUCCINATE; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID 2 MORPHOLINOETHYL ESTER; PREDNISONE; TACROLIMUS;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DISEASE COURSE; DRUG ERUPTION; DRUG HYPERSENSITIVITY; EOSINOPHIL; FEMALE; GRAFT VERSUS HOST REACTION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; LABORATORY TEST; LICHENOID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RASH; RECIPIENT; SKIN BIOPSY; SKIN DISEASE; TISSUE CULTURE;

ADULT; BIOPSY; BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION; DERMATITIS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DIAGNOSTIC ERRORS; DRUG HYPERSENSITIVITY; EOSINOPHILS; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; GRAFT VS HOST DISEASE; HUMANS; LEUKEMIA, LYMPHOCYTIC, CHRONIC; LEUKEMIA, MYELOID, CHRONIC; LYMPHOMA, NON-HODGKIN; MIDDLE AGED; SKIN;

EID: 4644278887     PISSN: 01909622     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jaad.2004.02.019     Document Type: Article

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