Lack of specificity in skin biopsy specimens to assess for acute graft-versus-host disease in initial 3 weeks after bone-marrow transplantation

Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology

Volumn 49, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 1081-1085

  Kuykendall, Tracy D ^a   Smoller, Bruce R ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOR MEDICAL SCIENCES   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOR MEDICAL SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT;

ACUTE GRAFT REJECTION; ALLOGENIC BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GRAFT FAILURE; GRAFT VERSUS HOST REACTION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; MEDICAL RECORD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN BIOPSY; TISSUE FIXATION; TISSUE SECTION; TISSUE SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0345293270     PISSN: 01909622     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0190-9622(03)02098-X     Document Type: Article

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