Diagnosis of gastrointestinal graft-versus-host disease - Is rectal biopsy enough?

Pediatric Blood and Cancer

Volumn 48, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 561-566

  Nydegger, Andreas ^a   Catto Smith, Anthony Graeme ^a   Tiedemann, Karin ^a   Hardikar, Winita ^a  

^a ROYAL CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

Bone marrow transplantation; Endoscopy; Graft versus host disease; Rectal biopsy

Indexed keywords

ACUTE GRANULOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; ADOLESCENT; ALLOGENIC BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CHILD; CHRONIC MYELOID LEUKEMIA; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMBINED IMMUNODEFICIENCY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL BIOPSY; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASE; GASTROINTESTINAL ENDOSCOPY; GASTROSCOPY; GRAFT VERSUS HOST REACTION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HURLER SYNDROME; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; MYELODYSPLASTIC SYNDROME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECTUM BIOPSY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; UPPER GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT;

ADOLESCENT; BIOPSY; BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASES; GASTROSCOPY; GRAFT VS HOST DISEASE; HUMANS; MALE; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RECTUM; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TIME FACTORS; TRANSPLANTATION, HOMOLOGOUS;

EID: 33947664626     PISSN: 15455009     EISSN: 15455017     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pbc.20924     Document Type: Article

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