Encephalomyelitis mimicking multiple sclerosis associated with chronic graft-versus-host disease after allogeneic bone marrow transplantation

Internal Medicine

Volumn 48, Issue 16, 2009, Pages 1453-1456

  Matsuo, Yayoi ^a   Kamezaki, Kenjiro ^a   Takeishi, Shoichiro ^a   Takenaka, Katsuto ^a   Eto, Tetsuya ^b   Nonami, Atsushi ^a   Miyamoto, Toshihiro ^a   Iwasaki, Hiromi ^c   Harada, Naoki ^a   Nagafuji, Koji ^a   Teshima, Takanori ^c   Akashi, Koichi ^a  

^a KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b HAMANOMACHI HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^c KYUSHU UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Allogeneic bone marrow transplantation; Graft versus host disease; Multiple sclerosis

Indexed keywords

BUSULFAN; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; CYCLOSPORIN A; METHOTREXATE; METHYLPREDNISOLONE;

ADULT; ALLOGENIC BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; BLURRED VISION; CASE REPORT; CHRONIC GRAFT VERSUS HOST DISEASE; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; DRUG PULSE THERAPY; ENCEPHALOMYELITIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; LIVER DYSFUNCTION; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; MYELODYSPLASTIC SYNDROME; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PANCYTOPENIA; REMISSION; VISUAL ACUITY;

BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ENCEPHALOMYELITIS; FEMALE; GRAFT VS HOST DISEASE; HUMANS; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; TRANSPLANTATION, HOMOLOGOUS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 70349515204     PISSN: 09182918     EISSN: 13497235     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2169/internalmedicine.48.2003     Document Type: Article

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