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Bone Marrow Transplantation Platform to Investigate the Role of Dendritic Cells in Graft-versus-Host Disease
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Approach to the morbilliform eruption in the hematopoietic transplant patient
Steven R Mays1, Joy H Kunishige, Elizabeth Truong
1Department of Dermatology, University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston, TX, USA.
Seminars in Cutaneous Medicine and Surgery
|December 12, 2007
Abstract:
Morbilliform eruptions occur frequently in the hematopoietic transplant population. The differential diagnosis includes drug reaction, viral exanthem, and cutaneous graft versus host disease. Using a typical patient case, we discuss the diagnostic approach to this clinical problem.
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