"Assessment of chronic sclerodermoid Graft-versus-Host Disease patients, using 20MHz high-frequency ultrasonography and cutometer methods"

Skin Research and Technology

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Osmola Mańkowska, Agnieszka ^a   Silny, Wojciech ^a   Dańczak Pazdrowska, Aleksandra ^a   Polańska, Adriana ^a   Olek Hrab, Karolina ^a   Sadowska Przytocka, Anna ^a   Zaba, Ryszard ^a   Jenerowicz, Dorota ^a  

^a POZNAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Poland)

Author keywords

Cutometer; GvHD; High frequency ultrasonography; Scleroderma

Indexed keywords

CUTOMETER; ECHOGENICITY; GRAFT-VERSUS-HOST DISEASE; GVHD; HIGH-FREQUENCY ULTRASONOGRAPHY; NONINVASIVE METHODS; SCLERODERMA; SENSITIVE PARAMETER; SKIN ELASTICITY; SKIN THICKNESS; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; ULTRASOUND MEASUREMENT;

BIOMETRICS; NONINVASIVE MEDICAL PROCEDURES; PATIENT MONITORING; STEM CELLS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

SKIN;

CYCLOSPORIN A; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; PREDNISOLONE;

ACUTE LYMPHOBLASTIC LEUKEMIA; ADULT; ALLOGENIC BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; CHRONIC SCLERODERMOID; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CUTANEOUS PARAMETERS; CUTOMETER METHOD; ECHOGRAPHY; ELASTICITY; FEMALE; GRAFT VERSUS HOST REACTION; HUMAN; PHOTOTHERAPY; SCLERODERMA; SKIN ELASTICITY; SKINFOLD THICKNESS; ULTRAVIOLET A RADIATION;

ADULT; CHRONIC DISEASE; DERMOSCOPY; ELASTICITY; FEMALE; GRAFT VS HOST DISEASE; HEMATOLOGIC NEOPLASMS; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; HODGKIN DISEASE; HUMANS; LEUKEMIA, MYELOID, ACUTE; LYMPHOMA, NON-HODGKIN; MIDDLE AGED; PRECURSOR CELL LYMPHOBLASTIC LEUKEMIA-LYMPHOMA; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SCLERODERMA, LOCALIZED; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; ULTRASONOGRAPHY; ULTRAVIOLET THERAPY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84872154192     PISSN: 0909752X     EISSN: 16000846     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0846.2012.00659.x     Document Type: Article

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