Living-donor liver transplantation for chronic hepatic graft-versus-host disease [18]

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 354, Issue 14, 2006, Pages 1536-1537

  Shimizu, Tetsunosuke ^a   Kasahara, Mureo ^a   Tanaka, Koichi ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID 2 MORPHOLINOETHYL ESTER; OKT 3;

BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION; CASE REPORT; CHRONIC DISEASE; DIARRHEA; ERYTHEMA; GRAFT VERSUS HOST REACTION; HEPATOMEGALY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; LETTER; LIVER BIOPSY; LIVER DISEASE; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONOR; LYMPHATIC LEUKEMIA; MALE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREATMENT FAILURE;

BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CHRONIC DISEASE; FEMALE; GRAFT VS HOST DISEASE; HUMANS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSION; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; LIVER; LIVER DISEASES; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONORS; MALE; MUROMONAB-CD3;

EID: 33645514970     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMc052628     Document Type: Letter

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