Rapid improvement of nailfold capillaroscopy after intense immunosuppression for systemic sclerosis and mixed connective tissue disease

Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases

Volumn 67, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 1057-1059

  Aschwanden, M ^a   Daikeler, T ^a   Jaeger, K A ^a   Thalhammer, C ^a   Gratwohl, A ^a   Matucci Cerinic, M ^b   Tyndall, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BASEL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AZATHIOPRINE; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; CYCLOSPORIN; GRANULOCYTE COLONY STIMULATING FACTOR; ILOPROST; THYMOCYTE ANTIBODY;

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; CAPILLAROSCOPY; CASE REPORT; CELL FUNCTION; CELL STRUCTURE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; HUMAN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; LETTER; MALE; MIXED CONNECTIVE TISSUE DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCLERODERMA; STEM CELL; STEM CELL MOBILIZATION; SYSTEMIC SCLEROSIS;

ADULT; CAPILLARIES; FEMALE; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; HUMANS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSION; MALE; MIXED CONNECTIVE TISSUE DISEASE; NAILS; SCLERODERMA, SYSTEMIC;

EID: 46849093891     PISSN: 00034967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/ard.2007.082008     Document Type: Letter

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