Ischemic colitis secondary to venous thrombosis: A rare presentation of cytomegalovirus vasculitis following renal transplantation

Transplantation

Volumn 61, Issue 11, 1996, Pages 1651-1653

  Muldoon, Joseph ^a   O'Riordan, Kenneth ^a   Rao, Sambasiva ^a   Abecassis, Michael ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AZATHIOPRINE; CYCLOSPORIN; GANCICLOVIR; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; PREDNISONE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOPEROXIDASE STAINING; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; ISCHEMIC COLITIS; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LEUKOPENIA; MALE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIUM; VASCULITIS; VEIN THROMBOSIS;

ADULT; COLITIS, ISCHEMIC; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTIONS; HUMANS; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; THROMBOPHLEBITIS; VASCULITIS;

EID: 0029939516     PISSN: 00411337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00007890-199606150-00018     Document Type: Article

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