Sweet's syndrome in patients with MDS and MEFV mutations

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 372, Issue 7, 2015, Pages 686-688

  Jo, Tatsuro ^a   Horio, Kensuke ^a   Migita, Kiyoshi ^b  

^a JAPANESE RED CROSS NAGASAKI GENBAKU HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL HOSPITAL ORGANIZATION NAGASAKI MEDICAL CENTER   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARGININE; AZACITIDINE; COLCHICINE; GLUTAMIC ACID; GLUTAMINE; GLYCINE; INFLAMMASOME; LENALIDOMIDE; CYTOSKELETON PROTEIN; MARENOSTRIN;

ACUTE FEBRILE NEUTROPHILIC DERMATOSIS; ADULT; ALLELE; CASE REPORT; CELL INFILTRATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DISEASE DURATION; EXON; FAMILIAL MEDITERRANEAN FEVER; FEMALE; FEVER; GENE; HETEROZYGOTE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INTERNATIONAL PROGNOSTIC SCORING SYSTEM; JAPANESE (PEOPLE); LETTER; LEUKOCYTOSIS; MALAISE; MALE; MEFV GENE; MIDDLE AGED; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; MYELODYSPLASTIC SYNDROME; REFRACTORY ANEMIA; REFRACTORY ANEMIA WITH EXCESS BLASTS; REFRACTORY ANEMIA WITH TRILINEAGE DYSPLASIA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SKIN BIOPSY; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; COMPLICATION; GENETICS; MUTATION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PATHOLOGY; SKELETAL MUSCLE;

CYTOSKELETAL PROTEINS; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HETEROZYGOTE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; MUTATION; MYELODYSPLASTIC SYNDROMES; SWEET SYNDROME;

EID: 84922690356     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMc1412998     Document Type: Letter

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