Dermatomyositis-like muscle pathology in patients with chronic graft-versus-host disease

Muscle and Nerve

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 643-647

  Allen, Jeffrey A ^a   Greenberg, Steven A ^a   Amato, Anthony A ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Chronic graft versus host disease; Dermatomyositis; Hematopoietic stem cell transplantation; Myositis; Perifascicular atrophy

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID; CYCLOSPORIN; CYTARABINE; DAUNORUBICIN; FLUDARABINE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID 2 MORPHOLINOETHYL ESTER; PREDNISONE; RITUXIMAB; TACROLIMUS;

ACUTE GRANULOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; ADULT; ALLOGENEIC HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CHRONIC GRAFT VERSUS HOST DISEASE; CHRONIC LYMPHATIC LEUKEMIA; CHRONIC MYELOID LEUKEMIA; DERMATOMYOSITIS; DRUG DOSE TITRATION; FEMALE; GRAFT VERSUS HOST REACTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; MUSCLE ATROPHY; MUSCLE BIOPSY; MYOPATHY; MYOSITIS; POLYMYOSITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADULT; CHRONIC DISEASE; DERMATOMYOSITIS; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EXANTHEMA; FEMALE; GRAFT VS HOST DISEASE; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; HUMANS; IMMUNOTHERAPY; LEUKEMIA, LYMPHOCYTIC, CHRONIC, B-CELL; LEUKEMIA, MYELOGENOUS, CHRONIC, BCR-ABL POSITIVE; LEUKEMIA, MYELOID, ACUTE; MALE; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; MUSCLE, SKELETAL;

EID: 70349330565     PISSN: 0148639X     EISSN: 10974598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mus.21353     Document Type: Article

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