Gastric antral vascular ectasia in 2-yr-old girl undergoing unrelated cord blood stem cell transplantation

Pediatric Transplantation

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 788-791

  Kuroiwa, Yuki ^a   Suzuki, Nobuhiro ^a   Mizue, Nobuo ^a   Hori, Tsukasa ^a   Endo, Takao ^a   Yoshida, Yukinari ^a   Tsutsumi, Hiroyuki ^a  

^a SAPPORO MEDICAL UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Child; Gastric antral vascular ectasia; Hematopoietic stem cell transplantation; Watermelon stomach

Indexed keywords

ANTACID AGENT; BUSULFAN; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; ETOPOSIDE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANEMIA; ARTICLE; BLOOD CLOTTING; CASE REPORT; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORD BLOOD STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; EPSTEIN BARR VIRUS; ESOPHAGOGASTRODUODENOSCOPY; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; GRAFT REJECTION; GRAFT VERSUS HOST REACTION; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; HEMOPHAGOCYTIC LYMPHOHISTIOCYTOSIS; HUMAN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; MALE; RARE DISEASE; RECURRENT DISEASE; STOMACH ANTRUM; STOMACH ANTRUM VASCULAR ECTASIA; VOMITING;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BIOPSY; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DILATATION, PATHOLOGIC; FEMALE; GRAFT VS HOST DISEASE; HERPESVIRUS 4, HUMAN; HUMANS; INTESTINAL MUCOSA; LYMPHOHISTIOCYTOSIS, HEMOPHAGOCYTIC; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PYLORIC ANTRUM; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; TRANSPLANTATION CONDITIONING; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 27944507840     PISSN: 13973142     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-3046.2005.00364.x     Document Type: Article

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