Pseudomembranous gastritis: A novel complication of Aspergillus infection in a patient with a bone marrow transplant and graft versus host disease

Archives of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

Volumn 124, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 619-624

  Yong, Sherri ^a   Attal, Houssam ^b   Chejfec, Gregorio ^a  

^a LOYOLA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b Spectrum Health ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AZATHIOPRINE; BUSULFAN; CIPROFLOXACIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; FOLIC ACID; GENTAMICIN; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; METRONIDAZOLE; RANITIDINE;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADULT; ALLOGENIC BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION; ARTICLE; ASPERGILLOSIS; ASPERGILLUS; BLOOD CULTURE; BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION; CASE REPORT; CHRONIC MYELOID LEUKEMIA; DIARRHEA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GASTRITIS; GRAFT VERSUS HOST REACTION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; NONHUMAN; SPUTUM CULTURE; STOMACH MUCOSA;

ADULT; ASPERGILLOSIS; ASPERGILLUS; BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION; BRONCHOPNEUMONIA; DIARRHEA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FATAL OUTCOME; GASTRITIS; GRAFT VS HOST DISEASE; HUMANS; LUNG; LUNG DISEASES, FUNGAL; MALE; NECROSIS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RESPIRATORY MUCOSA; SPUTUM;

EID: 0034111789     PISSN: 00039985     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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