Preoperative steroid pulse therapy for invasive thymoma
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Pulse steroid therapy.
Intravenous supra-pharmacological doses of corticosteroids are used in various inflammatory and autoimmune conditions because they are cumulatively less toxic than sustained steroid treatment at lower quantitative dosage. Their action is supposed to be mediated through non-genomic actions within the cell. Common indications for use in children include steroid resistant and steroid dependent nep...
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عنوان ژورنال: Cancer
سال: 2006
ISSN: 0008-543X,1097-0142
DOI: 10.1002/cncr.21875