| Literature DB >> 25274241 |
Toshiki Nakajima1, Daisuke Kawabata, Shuichiro Nakabo, Aya Miyagawa-Hayashino, Naoichiro Yukawa, Hajime Yoshifuji, Koichiro Ohmura, Takao Fujii, Tsuneyo Mimori.
Abstract
A 75-year-old woman with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) presented with long-term painful erythema on the right upper arm and left elbow. The patient was diagnosed with intralymphatic histiocytosis (ILH) based on the biopsy findings. Because the patient was unresponsive to single-agent treatment with methotrexate, infliximab and etanercept, we switched to tocilizumab (TCZ) treatment, which induced remission of the ILH. Our case suggests that TCZ may be a treatment option for ILH in patients with RA.Entities:
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Year: 2014 PMID： 25274241 DOI： 10.2169/internalmedicine.53.2688
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Intern Med ISSN： 0918-2918 Impact factor: 1.271