Gastrointestinal involvement in chronic graft-versus-host disease: A clinicopathologic study

Biology of Blood and Marrow Transplantation

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 46-51

  Akpek, Görgün ^a   Chinratanalab, Wichai ^b   Lee, Linda A ^a   Torbenson, Michael ^a   Hallick, Jason P ^a   Anders, Viki ^a   Vogelsang, Georgia B ^a,c  

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

^b VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Chronic; Graft versus host disease (GVHD); Gut; Intestinal; Pathology

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL CRAMP; ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHRONIC GRAFT VERSUS HOST DISEASE; CHRONICITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIARRHEA; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM FUNCTION DISORDER; DYSPHAGIA; FEMALE; FIBROSIS; GASTROINTESTINAL ENDOSCOPY; GASTROINTESTINAL MOTILITY; GASTROINTESTINAL SYMPTOM; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NAUSEA AND VOMITING; SATIETY; WEIGHT REDUCTION; BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION; CHRONIC DISEASE; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASE; GRAFT VERSUS HOST REACTION; INFANT; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; APOPTOSIS; BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CHRONIC DISEASE; ENDOSCOPY, GASTROINTESTINAL; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASES; GRAFT VS HOST DISEASE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 0042271382     PISSN: 10838791     EISSN: 15236536     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/bbmt.2003.49999     Document Type: Article

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