Hunting for the owl's eye in acute severe colitis: The role of cytomegalovirus

Digestive and Liver Disease

Volumn 36, Issue 12, 2004, Pages 803-805

  Loftus Jr , Edward V ^a  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID; FOSCARNET; GANCICLOVIR; VALGANCICLOVIR; VIRUS DNA;

CELL INCLUSION; COLITIS; COLON RESECTION; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTION; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DISEASE SEVERITY; HUMAN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; MEDLINE; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; NOTE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; RECTUM BIOPSY; SIGMOIDOSCOPY; ACUTE DISEASE; CYTOMEGALIC INCLUSION BODY DISEASE; VIROLOGY;

ACUTE DISEASE; COLECTOMY; COLITIS; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTIONS; HUMANS;

EID: 14644417200     PISSN: 15908658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dld.2004.08.003     Document Type: Note

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