Complete remission with a combination of lenalidomide, cyclophosphamide and prednisolone in a patient with incomplete POEMS syndrome

Acta Haematologica

Volumn 126, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 199-201

  Suyani, Elif ^a   Yaǧci, Münci ^a   Sucak, Gülsan Türköz ^a  

^a GAZI UNIVERSITY FACULTY OF MEDICINE   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICOTROPIN; CYANOCOBALAMIN; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; LENALIDOMIDE; PREDNISOLONE; PREGABALIN; PROLACTIN; THYROTROPIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BONE MARROW BIOPSY; CASE REPORT; CYANOCOBALAMIN DEFICIENCY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; GAMMOPATHY; HUMAN; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; NEUROPATHY; NEUTROPENIA; PAPILLEDEMA; PARESTHESIA; POEMS SYNDROME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN TINGLING;

ADULT; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; FEMALE; GAIT DISORDERS, NEUROLOGIC; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; HAND DEFORMITIES, ACQUIRED; HUMANS; POEMS SYNDROME; PREDNISOLONE; PROTEASOME ENDOPEPTIDASE COMPLEX; REMISSION INDUCTION; THALIDOMIDE; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTORS;

EID: 80051626242     PISSN: 00015792     EISSN: 14219662     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000329896     Document Type: Article

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