Gastric graft-versus-host disease: A blinded histologic study

American Journal of Surgical Pathology

Volumn 21, Issue 9, 1997, Pages 1037-1046

  Washington, Kay ^a   Bentley, Rex C ^b   Green, Annette ^c   Olson, Janice ^b   Treem, William R ^b   Krigman, Hannah R ^b  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Apoptosis; Bone marrow transplantation; Cytomegalovirus; Gastrointestinal tract; Graft versus host disease; Stomach

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ALLOGENIC BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS; DIARRHEA; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; GASTROINTESTINAL SYMPTOM; GRAFT VERSUS HOST REACTION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; NAUSEA; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; STOMACH BIOPSY; VOMITING;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; APOPTOSIS; BIOPSY; BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION; CELL TRANSPLANTATION; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTIONS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; EPITHELIUM; FALSE POSITIVE REACTIONS; FEMALE; FETAL BLOOD; GRAFT VS HOST DISEASE; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; OBSERVER VARIATION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SINGLE-BLIND METHOD; STOMACH; STOMACH DISEASES; TRANSPLANTATION, HOMOLOGOUS;

EID: 0030931120     PISSN: 01475185     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00000478-199709000-00008     Document Type: Article

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