Successful treatment of cytomegalovirus colitis with ganciclovir in a patient with adult T cell leukemia lymphoma: Case report

Journal of Chemotherapy

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 215-219

  Oshima, Y ^a   Nishida, K ^a   Kawazoye, S ^a   Noda, T ^a   Arima, F ^a   Miyahara, M ^a   Higashijima, M ^a   Yanaga, T ^a  

^a Takagi Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

Adult T cell leukemia lymphoma; Colitis; Cytomegalovirus colitis; Ganciclovir; Leukemia; Vancomycin

Indexed keywords

CLOSTRIDIUM TOXIN; GANCICLOVIR; VANCOMYCIN; VIRUS ANTIGEN;

AGED; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COLITIS; COLON BIOPSY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTION; DIARRHEA; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ECHOGRAPHY; HUMAN; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MALE; OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTION; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; PSEUDOMEMBRANOUS COLITIS; SIGMOIDOSCOPY; T CELL LYMPHOMA;

EID: 0032992410     PISSN: 1120009X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1179/joc.1999.11.3.215     Document Type: Article

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