Drug rash with eosinophilia and systemic symptoms and graft-versus-host disease developing sequentially in a patient

Clinical and Experimental Dermatology

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 199-201

  Natkunarajah, J ^a,b   Watson, K ^b   Diaz Cano, S ^b   Mufti, G ^b   Du Vivier, A ^b   Creamer, D ^b  

^a AMERSHAM HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b KING S COLLEGE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACICLOVIR; CORTICOSTEROID; CYCLOSPORIN A; PREDNISOLONE; VALACICLOVIR;

ADULT; ALLOGENEIC HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTION; DRESS SYNDROME; GRAFT VERSUS HOST REACTION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VIRUS REACTIVATION;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTIONS; DRUG ERUPTIONS; EOSINOPHILIA; GRAFT VS HOST DISEASE; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; HUMANS; LYMPHOKINES; LYMPHOMA, NON-HODGKIN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; VIRUS ACTIVATION;

EID: 58549113158     PISSN: 03076938     EISSN: 13652230     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2230.2008.02823.x     Document Type: Article

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