Photosensitivity
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Photosensitivity can be defined as the development of rash, sunburn, pruritus or paresthesias after exposure to sunlight or artificial light and polymorphous light eruption is the most common form of photosensitivity accounting for more than ninety percent of all cases. A case study of a 30-year-old woman who suffered from pruritic rash for 72-hours on her arms and chest is presented along with the details of the evaluation of the disease and its treatment.
Publication Name: The New England Journal of Medicine
Subject: Health
ISSN: 0028-4793
Year: 2004
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Getting a handle on graft-versus-host disease
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The benefit of a central dichotomy of allogeneic hematopoietic stem-cell transplantation for neoplastic diseases is the graft-versus-tumor (GVT) effect. Some times the transplantation will result in graft-versus-host disease (GVHD).
Publication Name: The New England Journal of Medicine
Subject: Health
ISSN: 0028-4793
Year: 2004
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