Endoscopic findings predict the histologic diagnosis in gastrointestinal graft-versus-host disease

Endoscopy

Volumn 34, Issue 10, 2002, Pages 808-813

  Cruz Correa, M ^a   Poonawala, A ^a   Abraham, S C ^a   Wu, T T ^a   Zahurak, M ^a   Vogelsang, G ^a   Kalloo, A N ^a   Lee, L A ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUSULFAN; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; THIOTEPA;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; ALLOGENIC BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION; ARTICLE; CHRONIC DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM ULCER; DIGESTIVE TRACT ENDOSCOPY; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; EDEMA; ENDOSCOPIC BIOPSY; ERYTHEMA; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASE; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; GRAFT VERSUS HOST REACTION; HEMATOLOGIC DISEASE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INTESTINE MUCOSA; MALE; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; PATIENT REFERRAL; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STOMACH EROSION;

ADULT; APOPTOSIS; BIOPSY; BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM; ENDOSCOPY, GASTROINTESTINAL; FEMALE; GASTRIC MUCOSA; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASES; GRAFT VS HOST DISEASE; HUMANS; INTESTINAL MUCOSA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NECROSIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0036791536     PISSN: 0013726X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-2002-34257     Document Type: Article

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