Endoscopic biopsy diagnosis of acute gastrointestinal graft-versus-host disease: Rectosigmoid biopsies are more sensitive than upper gastrointestinal biopsies

American Journal of Gastroenterology

Volumn 103, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 982-989

  Ross, William A ^a   Ghosh, Shubhra ^a   Dekovich, Alexander A ^a   Liu, Suyu ^a   Ayers, Gregory D ^a   Cleary, Karen R ^a   Lee, Jeffrey H ^a   Couriel, Daniel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALLOGENEIC PERIPHERAL BLOOD STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DIARRHEA; DISEASE SEVERITY; DUODENUM BIOPSY; ENDOSCOPIC BIOPSY; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL BIOPSY; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; GRAFT VERSUS HOST REACTION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NAUSEA AND VOMITING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; STOMACH BIOPSY;

ACUTE DISEASE; BIOPSY; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; COLON, SIGMOID; ENDOSCOPY, GASTROINTESTINAL; FEMALE; GRAFT VS HOST DISEASE; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; HUMANS; LYMPHOMA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RECTUM; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; UPPER GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT;

EID: 41849134295     PISSN: 00029270     EISSN: 15720241     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1572-0241.2007.01639.x     Document Type: Article

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