Bladder carcinoma in a transplant recipient: Evidence to implicate the BK human polyomavirus as a causal transforming agent

Transplantation

Volumn 73, Issue 12, 2002, Pages 1933-1936

  Geetha, Duvuru ^a   Tong, Betty C ^a   Racusen, Lorraine ^a   Markowitz, Jay S ^a   Westra, William H ^a,b  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b Weinberg Building ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID 2 MORPHOLINOETHYL ESTER; TACROLIMUS;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BK VIRUS; BLADDER CARCINOMA; CASE REPORT; HEMORRHAGIC CYSTITIS; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTERSTITIAL NEPHRITIS; KIDNEY FUNCTION; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; PANCREAS TRANSPLANTATION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECIPIENT; URETER OBSTRUCTION; UROTHELIUM;

EID: 0037182876     PISSN: 00411337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00007890-200206270-00015     Document Type: Article

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