title: Sucessful treatment of severe bone pain and acute arthritis in chronic myelomonocytic leukaemia by cytosine arabinoside.
abstract: An elderly patient with chronic myelomonocytic leukaemia developed severe bone pains and acute gonarthritis. Intravenously administered cytosine arabinoside brought dramatic relief of the bone pains and led to a rapid subsidence of the arthritis, without achieving haematological remission.
mesh_terms: D001168:Arthritis / Q000188:drug therapy* / Q000209:etiology; D003561:Cytarabine / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D006801:Humans; D007951:Leukemia, Myeloid / Q000150:complications* / Q000188:drug therapy; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010146:Pain / Q000188:drug therapy* / Q000209:etiology
chemical_list: D003561:Cytarabine
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