Treatment of High-Risk Chronic GVHD

Biology of Blood and Marrow Transplantation

Volumn 14, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 1436-1437

  Pavletic, Steven ^a   Vogelsand, Georgia B ^b  

^a NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

STEROID; TACROLIMUS;

ACUTE GRAFT VERSUS HOST DISEASE; ACUTE GRANULOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CHRONIC GRAFT VERSUS HOST DISEASE; DRUG DOSE INCREASE; DRUG RESPONSE; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; LEUKEMIA RELAPSE; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LICHEN PLANUS; MALE; MOUTH ULCER; MYELOABLATIVE CONDITIONING; PERIPHERAL BLOOD STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; RASH; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; CHRONIC DISEASE; DRUG ERUPTIONS; FEMALE; GRAFT VS HOST DISEASE; HUMANS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; LEUKEMIA, MYELOID, ACUTE; MALE; PERIPHERAL BLOOD STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; RISK; STEROIDS; TACROLIMUS; TRANSPLANTATION CONDITIONING; TRANSPLANTATION, HOMOLOGOUS;

EID: 56549110029     PISSN: 10838791     EISSN: 15236536     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbmt.2008.05.016     Document Type: Article

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