Sweet syndrome subsequent to relapsing polychondritis and myelodysplastic syndrome in a Japanese patient

Acta Dermato-Venereologica

Volumn 88, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 517-519

  Kawakami, Tamihiro ^a   Kawase, Ayumi ^a   Takeuchi, Sora ^a   Yoshioka, Shinji ^a   Fujimoto, Norihiro ^b   Tajima, Shingo ^b   Mizoguchi, Masako ^a   Soma, Yoshinao ^a  

^a ST MARIANNA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL DEFENSE MEDICAL COLLEGE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; COLLAGEN TYPE 2; PREDNISOLONE;

ACUTE FEBRILE NEUTROPHILIC DERMATOSIS; AGED; ANEMIA; ARTHRALGIA; BONE MARROW BIOPSY; BRONCHIOLITIS OBLITERANS ORGANIZING PNEUMONIA; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DEATH; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; ERYTHEMA; EXTERNAL OTITIS; FLU LIKE SYNDROME; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; JAPANESE; LABORATORY TEST; LETTER; LEUKOCYTOSIS; MALE; MYELODYSPLASTIC SYNDROME; OPHTHALMOLOGY; OTORHINOLARYNGOLOGY; PERCEPTION DEAFNESS; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PLEURA EFFUSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELAPSING POLYCHONDRITIS; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; TRANSBRONCHIAL BIOPSY; UVEITIS; VERTIGO;

AGED, 80 AND OVER; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FATAL OUTCOME; HUMANS; JAPAN; MALE; MYELODYSPLASTIC SYNDROMES; POLYCHONDRITIS, RELAPSING; SWEET SYNDROME;

EID: 53349121140     PISSN: 00015555     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2340/00015555-0488     Document Type: Letter

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