Accelerated cutaneous nodulosis associated with aromatase inhibitor therapy in a patient with rheumatoid arthritis

Journal of Rheumatology

Volumn 36, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1087-1088

  Chao, Jeannie ^a   Parker, Barbara A ^b   Zvaifler, Nathan J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY; CYCLIC CITRULLINATED ANTIBODY; ENDOTHELIAL LEUKOCYTE ADHESION MOLECULE 1; ESTRADIOL; ESTROGEN; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR; EXEMESTANE; GAMMA INTERFERON; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA; INTERLEUKIN 2; INTERLEUKIN 4; INTERLEUKIN 5; LEFLUNOMIDE; LETROZOLE; METHOTREXATE; RHEUMATOID FACTOR; SALAZOSULFAPYRIDINE; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; AROMATASE INHIBITOR; NITRILE; TRIAZOLE DERIVATIVE;

ACCELERATED CUTANEOUS NODULOSIS; ANAMNESIS; ARTHRALGIA; BREAST CANCER; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE ACTIVITY; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; ESTROGEN SYNTHESIS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HORMONAL THERAPY; HUMAN; INTRADUCTAL CARCINOMA; JOINT STIFFNESS; LETTER; MASTECTOMY; METASTASIS; MUSCULOSKELETAL PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RHEUMATIC DISEASE; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; RHEUMATOID NODULE; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TUMOR BIOPSY; AGED; BREAST TUMOR; CASE REPORT; CHEMICALLY INDUCED DISORDER; FEMALE; HAND; PATHOLOGY;

AGED; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; AROMATASE INHIBITORS; ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HAND; HUMANS; NITRILES; RHEUMATOID NODULE; TRIAZOLES;

EID: 67449092882     PISSN: 0315162X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3899/jrheum.080648     Document Type: Letter

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