Improvements in digital vasculature observed using micro magnetic resonance angiography after high-dose immunosuppression for severe systemic sclerosis

Bone Marrow Transplantation

Volumn 44, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 387-389

  Wang, J ^a,b   Nash, R A ^c   Chu, B ^b   Yarnykh, V L ^b   Schwartz, S M ^d   Sullivan, K M ^e   Yuan, C ^b  

^a University of Washington   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^e DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; THYMOCYTE ANTIBODY;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOLOGOUS HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG MEGADOSE; FINGER BLOOD FLOW; GASTROESOPHAGEAL REFLUX; HAND PARESTHESIA; HUMAN; INTERSTITIAL LUNG DISEASE; JOINT CONTRACTURE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MALE; PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAYNAUD PHENOMENON; SCLERODERMA; SYSTEMIC SCLEROSIS; TELANGIECTASIA; TRANSPLANTATION;

ANTILYMPHOCYTE SERUM; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; CONSTRICTION, PATHOLOGIC; CYCLOSPORINS; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HAND; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; HUMANS; HYPESTHESIA; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PAIN; SCLERODERMA, DIFFUSE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WHOLE-BODY IRRADIATION;

EID: 70349608321     PISSN: 02683369     EISSN: 14765365     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/bmt.2009.35     Document Type: Article

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