Graft-versus-host-like colitis and malignant thymoma

Digestive Diseases and Sciences

Volumn 47, Issue 9, 2002, Pages 1998-2001

  Lowry, Philip W ^a   Myers, John D ^a   Geller, Alex ^a   Bostwick, David G ^a   Clain, Jonathan E ^a  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

Colitis; Graft versus host disease; Octreotide; Thymoma

Indexed keywords

AZATHIOPRINE; AZTREONAM; CEFAZOLIN; CISPLATIN; CYCLOSPORIN; ETOPOSIDE; IFOSFAMIDE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; PREDNISONE; STEROID;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CELLULITIS; COLITIS; COLONOSCOPY; DIARRHEA; DIPLOPIA; FEMALE; GRAFT VERSUS HOST REACTION; HUMAN; MYASTHENIA GRAVIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PTOSIS; RASH; THYMECTOMY; THYMOMA;

ADULT; COLITIS; DIARRHEA; FEMALE; GRAFT VS HOST DISEASE; HUMANS; OCTREOTIDE; T-LYMPHOCYTES; THYMOMA; THYMUS NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0036714555     PISSN: 01632116     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1019656425332     Document Type: Article

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