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1986 • 1,453 citations

MYCOPHENOLATE MOFETIL FOR THE PREVENTION OF ACUTE REJECTION IN PRIMARY CADAVERIC RENAL ALLOGRAFT RECIPIENTS

1995 • 1,380 citations

HSV-TK Gene Transfer into Donor Lymphocytes for Control of Allogeneic Graft-Versus-Leukemia

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1981 • 892 citations

A Multicenter, Controlled Trial of Ursodiol for the Treatment of Primary Biliary Cirrhosis

1991 • 727 citations

Bone Marrow Transplantation in Patients with Thalassemia

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1985 • 404 citations

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1992 • 394 citations

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1989 • 359 citations

Prednisone and azathioprine compared with prednisone and placebo for treatment of chronic graft-v-host disease: prognostic influence of prolonged thrombocytopenia after allogeneic marrow transplantation

1988 • 346 citations

Allogeneic Peripheral Blood Stem Cell Transplantation May Be Associated With a High Risk of Chronic Graft-Versus-Host Disease

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1990 • 311 citations

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1988 • 289 citations

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1978 • 288 citations

MARROW TRANSPLANTATION FROM HLA-MATCHED UNRELATED DONORS FOR TREATMENT OF HEMATOLOGIC MALIGNANCIES

1991 • 272 citations

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1993 • 266 citations

PUVA and cancer: a large-scale epidemiological study

1991 • 255 citations

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1989 • 219 citations

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1986 • 205 citations

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1978 • 201 citations

Thalidomide as salvage therapy for chronic graft-versus-host disease

1995 • 194 citations

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1995 • 155 citations

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1986 • 134 citations

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1989 • 134 citations

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1996 • 131 citations

Successful treatment of chronic graft-versus-host disease with extracorporeal photopheresis.

1994 • 131 citations

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1996 • 129 citations

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1992 • 128 citations

Mycophenolate mofetil for the treatment of acute and chronic GVHD in bone marrow transplant patients

1998 • 110 citations

Photopheresis in paediatric patients with drug‐resistant chronic graft‐versus‐host disease

1997 • 109 citations

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1986 • 105 citations

Clinical Pharmacokinetics of Clofazimine

1989 • 105 citations

Late complications of allogeneic and autologous marrow transplantation.

1992 • 105 citations

Thalidomide treatment for chronic graft‐versus‐host disease

1991 • 96 citations

Ursodeoxycholic Acid Treatment of Refractory Chronic Graft-versus-Host Disease of the Liver

1992 • 95 citations

Inhibition of antiskin allograft immunity by infusions with syngeneic photoinactivated effector lymphocytes

1989 • 86 citations

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1995 • 86 citations

Photochemotherapy improves chronic cutaneous graft-versus-host disease

1990 • 83 citations

The role of thalidomide in the treatment of refractory chronic graft-versus-host disease following bone marrow transplantation in children

1998 • 82 citations

Treatment of Chronic Graft-Versus-Host Disease With Clofazimine

1997 • 82 citations

Etretinate Therapy for Refractory Sclerodermatous Chronic Graft-Versus-Host Disease

1999 • 81 citations

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PUVA Therapy for Chronic Cutaneous Graft-vs-Host Disease

1991 • 77 citations

Reimmunization after blood or marrow stem cell transplantation

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1996 • 74 citations

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1990 • 73 citations

Functional Asplenia after Bone Marrow Transplantation

1988 • 68 citations

Review of Immunomodulation by Photopheresis: Treatment of Cutaneous T–Cell Lymphoma, Autoimmune Disease, and Allograft Rejection

1994 • 63 citations

Chronic graft-versus-host disease

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1986 • 58 citations

FK506 treatment of graft-versus-host disease developing or exacerbating during prophylaxis and therapy with cyclosporin and/or other immunosuppressants. Japanese FK506 BMT Study Group.

1995 • 55 citations

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1995 • 54 citations

FK 506 rescue in chronic graft-versus-host-disease after bone marrow transplantation.

1991 • 49 citations

Immunosuppressive properties of thalidomide. Inhibition of in vitro lymphocyte proliferation alone and in combination with cyclosporine or FK506.

1991 • 47 citations

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1992 • 41 citations

Acitretin and Etretinate

1993 • 39 citations

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1990 • 39 citations

High incidence of chronic graft versus host disease after allogeneic peripheral blood progenitor cell transplantation. The Spanish Group of Allo-PBPCT.

1998 • 39 citations

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1997 • 38 citations

Intensification of induction prior to intensification of consolidation and bone marrow rescue in disseminated neuroblastoma.

1989 • 35 citations

IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE PROPERTIES OF THALIDOMIDE

1991 • 33 citations

Fatal pneumococcal infections following allogeneic bone marrow transplant.

1994 • 31 citations

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1995 • 29 citations

Development of multiple cutaneous squamous cell carcinomas during PUVA treatment for chronic graft-versus-host disease

1994 • 28 citations

Chronic graft-vs.-host disease of the liver: Another indication of ursodeoxycholic acid? Fried RH, Murakami CS, Fisher LD, Willson RA, Sullivan KM, McDonald GB. Ursodeoxycholic acid treatment of refractory chronic graft-versus-host disease of the liver. Ann Intern Med 1992;116:624–629

1992 • 27 citations

Total lymphoid irradiation for treatment of drug resistant chronic GVHD.

1993 • 26 citations

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1995 • 25 citations

“Suicide” gene for the control of graft-versus-host disease

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1987 • 23 citations

Successful treatment of chronic cutaneous graft-versus-host-disease (GVHD) with penicillamine

1983 • 18 citations

Evaluation of presence and functional activity of potentially self-reactive T cells in aged mice

1996 • 18 citations

Nedocromil sodium ameliorates skin manifestations in a murine model of chronic graft-versus-host disease

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Is there an effective therapy for chronic graft-versus-host disease?

1993 • 11 citations

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1964 • 8 citations

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1947 • 5 citations