Good's syndrome-associated pure red cell aplasia with myelodysplastic syndrome

Internal Medicine

Volumn 50, Issue 18, 2011, Pages 2011-2014

  Nitta, Hideaki ^a   Harada, Yuka ^a   Okikawa, Yoshiko ^b   Fujii, Masayoshi ^a   Arihiro, Koji ^a   Kimura, Akiro ^a   Harada, Hironori ^a  

^a HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Hiroshima University ^*  (Japan)

Author keywords

Good's syndrome; Myelodysplastic syndrome; Pure red cell aplasia; Thymoma

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CYCLOSPORIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M;

AGED; ARTICLE; BONE MARROW EXAMINATION; CASE REPORT; CD4 CD8 RATIO; CELL EXPANSION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; EDEMA; EFFECTOR CELL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GOOD SYNDROME; HUMAN; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; KARYOTYPING; MALE; MEDIASTINUM TUMOR; MYELODYSPLASTIC SYNDROME; NORMOCHROMIC NORMOCYTIC ANEMIA; PURE RED CELL ANEMIA; RETICULOCYTOSIS; SEPTIC SHOCK; SIDE EFFECT; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; THYMECTOMY; THYMOMA; TRISOMY; TRISOMY 15;

AGED; BONE MARROW; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; COMORBIDITY; CYCLOSPORINE; HUMANS; IMMUNOLOGIC DEFICIENCY SYNDROMES; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; MALE; MYELODYSPLASTIC SYNDROMES; RADIOTHERAPY; RED-CELL APLASIA, PURE; T-LYMPHOCYTES; THYMECTOMY; THYMOMA; THYMUS NEOPLASMS;

EID: 80052864125     PISSN: 09182918     EISSN: 13497235     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2169/internalmedicine.50.5709     Document Type: Article

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