Efficacy of granulocytapheresis for the treatment of active ulcerative colitis and avoidance of systemic corticosteroid administration

Digestion

Volumn 82, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 37-38

  Tokoro, Chikako ^a   Inamori, Masahiko ^a   Uchiyama, Takasi ^a   Iida, Hiroshi ^a   Endo, Hiroki ^a   Hosono, Kunihiro ^a   Sakamoto, Yasunari ^a   Takahashi, Hirokazu ^a   Koide, Tomoko ^a   Goto, Ayumu ^a   Yasuzaki, Hiroaki ^a   Abe, Yasunobu ^a   Matsuda, Reikei ^b   Takahashi, Daisuke ^b   Kawana, Ichiro ^a   Suzuki, Shinichiro ^b   Nakajima, Atsushi ^a  

^a YOKOHAMA CITY UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b Fujisawa Shounandai Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID;

ADULT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLON MUCOSA; CYTAPHERESIS; DISEASE ACTIVITY; FEMALE; GRANULOCYTAPHERESIS; GRANULOCYTE; HEADACHE; HUMAN; LETTER; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ULCERATIVE COLITIS;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADRENAL CORTEX HORMONES; ADULT; COLITIS, ULCERATIVE; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEUKAPHERESIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 77951465037     PISSN: 00122823     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000276896     Document Type: Letter

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