Severe Graft-versus-Host Disease in a Liver-Transplant Recipient

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 318, Issue 11, 1988, Pages 689-691

  Burdick, James F ^a   Vogelsang, Georgia B ^a   Smith, William J ^a   Farmer, Evan R ^a   Bias, Wilma B ^a   Kaufmann, Scott H ^a   Horn, Janet ^a   Colombani, Paul M ^a   Pitt, Henry A ^a   Perler, Bruce A ^a   Merritt, William T ^a   Williams, G Melville ^a   Boitnott, John K ^a   Herlong, H Franklin ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; CASE REPORT; GRAFT RECIPIENT; GRAFT VERSUS HOST REACTION; HUMAN; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE;

EID: 0023860082     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJM198803173181107     Document Type: Article

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