Endoscopies in pediatric small intestinal transplant recipients: Five years experience

American Journal of Gastroenterology

Volumn 93, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 207-211

  Sigurdsson, Luther ^a   Reyes, Jorge ^a   Putnam, Philip E ^a   Del Rosario, J Fernando ^a   Di Lorenzo, Carlo ^a   Orenstein, Susan R ^a   Todo, Saturo ^a   Kocoshis, Samuel A ^a  

^a CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLONOSCOPY; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTION; EPSTEIN BARR VIRUS; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; GRAFT REJECTION; HUMAN; ILEOSTOMY; ILEUM; INFANT; INTESTINE ENDOSCOPY; INTESTINE PERFORATION; INTESTINE TRANSPLANTATION; PEDIATRICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECIPIENT; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

ADOLESCENT; BIOPSY; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; ENDOSCOPY, GASTROINTESTINAL; GRAFT REJECTION; HUMANS; INFANT; INTESTINE, SMALL; OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTIONS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS;

EID: 0032008337     PISSN: 00029270     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1572-0241.1998.00207.x     Document Type: Article

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