New treatment strategy for Crow-Fukase (POEMS) syndrome

Clinical Neurology

Volumn 50, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 794-796

  Kuwabara, Satoshi ^a  

^a CHIBA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Anti VEGF monocloncal antibody; Autologous peripheral blood stem cell transplantation; Crow Fukase syndrome; POEMS syndrome; Thalidomide

Indexed keywords

BEVACIZUMAB; BORTEZOMIB; LENALIDOMIDE; VASCULOTROPIN;

AUTOLOGOUS PERIPHERAL BLOOD STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONFERENCE PAPER; HUMAN; NEUROPATHY; PLASMA CELL; POEMS SYNDROME; TREATMENT PLANNING;

ANGIOGENESIS INHIBITORS; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL, HUMANIZED; BORONIC ACIDS; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; DEMYELINATING DISEASES; HUMANS; MELPHALAN; PERIPHERAL BLOOD STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; POEMS SYNDROME; PYRAZINES; THALIDOMIDE; TRANSPLANTATION, AUTOLOGOUS; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR A;

EID: 84856378809     PISSN: 0009918X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5692/clinicalneurol.50.794     Document Type: Conference Paper

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