Pneumocystis cystoides intestinalis with pneumoperitoneum and pneumoretroperitoneum in a patient with extensive chronic graft-versus-host disease

Bone Marrow Transplantation

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 331-333

  Schulenburg, A ^a   Herold, C ^b   Eisenhuber, E ^b   Oberhuber, G ^b   Volc Platzer, B ^b   Greinix, H T ^b   Reiter, E ^b   Keil, F ^b   Kalhs, P ^b  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Chronic graft versus host disease; Pneumatosis cystoides intestinalis

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; CYCLOSPORIN A; GANCICLOVIR; METHOTREXATE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CHRONIC MYELOMONOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CYTOMEGALIC INCLUSION BODY DISEASE; GRAFT VERSUS HOST REACTION; HUMAN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; MALE; PNEUMATOSIS INTESTINALIS; PNEUMOCYSTIS; PNEUMOPERITONEUM; PNEUMORETROPERITONEUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WHOLE BODY RADIATION; BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION; CHRONIC DISEASE; MIDDLE AGED;

BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION; CHRONIC DISEASE; GRAFT VS HOST DISEASE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PNEUMATOSIS CYSTOIDES INTESTINALIS; PNEUMOPERITONEUM; RETROPNEUMOPERITONEUM;

EID: 0032795874     PISSN: 02683369     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.bmt.1701897     Document Type: Article

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