Varicella zoster meningoradiculitis in Crohn's disease treated with 6-mercaptopurine

Inflammatory Bowel Diseases

Volumn 17, Issue 8, 2011, Pages

  Cullen, Garret ^a   Krakower, Douglas ^a   Mitty, Jennifer A ^a   Cheifetz, Adam S ^a  

^a BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACICLOVIR; MERCAPTOPURINE; VALGANCICLOVIR;

ADULT; ARM; BACKACHE; BLOOD VESSEL INJURY; BUTTOCK; CASE REPORT; COLON RESECTION; CROHN DISEASE; DISEASE SEVERITY; DISTAL PARESTHESIA; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; DRY SKIN; EMERGENCY WARD; ERYTHEMA; FEVER; FOOT PARESTHESIA; HEADACHE; HERPES SIMPLEX VIRUS; HERPES VIRUS INFECTION; HERPES ZOSTER; HUMAN; ILEOCOLONIC CROHN DISEASE; ILEUM RESECTION; LETTER; LUMBAR PUNCTURE; LUMBOSACRAL RADICULITIS; MALE; MENINGISM; MYALGIA; PAPULE; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PITYRIASIS ROSEA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADICULITIS; RASH; RECURRENT DISEASE; REMISSION; SACRUM; SKIN BIOPSY; THIGH; TREATMENT DURATION; TRUNK; URINE RETENTION; VARICELLA ZOSTER MENINGORADICULITIS; VARICELLA ZOSTER VIRUS;

6-MERCAPTOPURINE; ACYCLOVIR; ANTIVIRAL AGENTS; CROHN DISEASE; HERPES ZOSTER; HERPESVIRUS 3, HUMAN; HUMANS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; MALE; MENINGITIS, VIRAL; MIDDLE AGED; POLYRADICULOPATHY;

EID: 80955177512     PISSN: 10780998     EISSN: 15364844     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ibd.21782     Document Type: Letter

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