Neuropathy in chronic graft-versus-host disease caused by Donor T cells

Muscle and Nerve

Volumn 46, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 610-611

  Haruki, Hiroyo ^a   Koga, Michiaki ^a   Ogasawara, Jun Ichi ^a   Omoto, Masatoshi ^a   Kawai, Motoharu ^a   Kanda, Takashi ^a  

^a YAMAGUCHI UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYCLOSPORIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; PREDNISOLONE;

ACTION POTENTIAL; ACUTE LYMPHOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; ADULT; ALLOGENIC BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION; ALOPECIA; ARM MUSCLE; BRAIN ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; CANCER PATIENT; CASE REPORT; CD4+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CD8+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID ANALYSIS; CHRONIC GRAFT VERSUS HOST DISEASE; DEMYELINATING NEUROPATHY; DEMYELINATION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DRY EYE; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GRAFT RECIPIENT; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LEG MUSCLE; LETTER; LIMB WEAKNESS; LYMPHOCYTIC INFILTRATION; MONONUCLEAR CELL; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; MOTOR NERVE CONDUCTION; MOUTH ULCER; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; NERVE BIOPSY; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; ORGAN DONOR; PARESTHESIA; PERIPHERAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CEREBROSPINAL FLUID LEVEL; RASH; RELAPSE; SENSORY DYSFUNCTION; SENSORY NERVE CONDUCTION; T LYMPHOCYTE; X CHROMOSOME; Y CHROMOSOME;

ADULT; BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION; CHRONIC DISEASE; FEMALE; GRAFT VS HOST DISEASE; HUMANS; PERIPHERAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; PRECURSOR CELL LYMPHOBLASTIC LEUKEMIA-LYMPHOMA; T-LYMPHOCYTES;

EID: 84866341170     PISSN: 0148639X     EISSN: 10974598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mus.23524     Document Type: Letter

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