Sweet's syndrome after adalimumab therapy for refractory relapsing polychondritis

BMJ Case Reports

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages

  Keidel, Sarah ^a   McColl, Aubretia ^a   Edmonds, Sally ^a  

^a STOKE MANDEVILLE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACICLOVIR; ADALIMUMAB; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; AZATHIOPRINE; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; ETANERCEPT; METHOTREXATE; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; PREDNISOLONE; ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY;

ACUTE FEBRILE NEUTROPHILIC DERMATOSIS; AGED; ARTHRALGIA; ARTICLE; BONE MARROW BIOPSY; BONE MARROW SUPPRESSION; CASE REPORT; DISEASE EXACERBATION; DRUG DOSE ESCALATION; DRUG DOSE INCREASE; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; DRUG RESPONSE; DRUG SUBSTITUTION; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; EPISCLERITIS; ERYTHEMA; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; FEVER; HOARSENESS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INFECTION; MALE; MEGALOCYTOSIS; MOON FACE; NIGHT SWEAT; PANCYTOPENIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RASH; REFRACTORY ANEMIA; RELAPSING POLYCHONDRITIS; RIGOR; SKIN BIOPSY; SPINE DISEASE; WEIGHT REDUCTION; CHEMICALLY INDUCED; POLYCHONDRITIS, RELAPSING;

ADALIMUMAB; AGED; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL, HUMANIZED; HUMANS; MALE; POLYCHONDRITIS, RELAPSING; SWEET SYNDROME;

EID: 84855959227     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1757790X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bcr.10.2011.4935     Document Type: Article

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