Successful treatment of a case of steroid-dependent neuro-Sweet disease with dapsone

Clinical Neurology

Volumn 50, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 257-261

  Shibata, Ken Ichi ^a   Tateishi, Takahisa ^a   Yamasaki, Ryo ^a   Ohyagi, Yasumasa ^a   Kira, Jun Ichi ^a  

^a KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cholchicine; Corticosteroid; Dapsone; Neuro Sweet disease (NSD); Neutrophil

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; COLCHICINE; DAPSONE; HLA B ANTIGEN; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; PREDNISOLONE;

ACUTE FEBRILE NEUTROPHILIC DERMATOSIS; ADULT; APHTHOUS STOMATITIS; ARTICLE; BABINSKI REFLEX; CASE REPORT; CELL INFILTRATION; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID ANALYSIS; CONSCIOUSNESS LEVEL; CONVULSION; DRUG DOSE TITRATION; DRUG EFFICACY; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; FEVER; HUMAN; HYPERREFLEXIA; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MALE; MENINGOENCEPHALITIS; NEUROSWEET DISEASE; NEUTROPHIL; PLEOCYTOSIS; RECURRENT DISEASE; RELAPSE; SKIN BIOPSY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT RESPONSE;

EID: 77952201730     PISSN: 0009918X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5692/clinicalneurol.50.257     Document Type: Article

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