Cytomegalovirus colitis - A severe complication after standard chemotherapy

Acta Oncologica

Volumn 41, Issue 7-8, 2002, Pages 704-706

  Matthes, Thomas ^b   Kaiser, Laurent ^c   Weber, Damien ^c   Kurt, Anne Marie ^a   Dietrich, Pierre Yves ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Switzerland)

^b GENEVA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (Switzerland)

^c NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODIES; BIOPSY; CELLS; CHEMOTHERAPY; PATIENT TREATMENT;

COLONIC BIOPSIES;

ONCOLOGY;

CISPLATIN; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS ANTIBODY; ETOPOSIDE; GANCICLOVIR; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; VIRUS DNA;

AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COLON BIOPSY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTION; DIARRHEA; ENTEROCOLITIS; HUMAN; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; LUNG SMALL CELL CANCER; LYMPHOCYTOPENIA; MALE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; T LYMPHOCYTE;

EID: 0346034830     PISSN: 0284186X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/028418602321028346     Document Type: Article

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