Do Patients Need More Frequent Colonoscopic Surveillance After Liver Transplantation?

Transplantation Proceedings

Volumn 40, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1522-1524

  Rudraraju, M ^a   Osowo, A T ^a   Singh, V ^a   Carey, E J ^a  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

CYCLOSPORIN A; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID 2 MORPHOLINOETHYL ESTER; RAPAMYCIN; TACROLIMUS;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ALCOHOL LIVER DISEASE; AMYLOIDOSIS; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNE HEPATITIS; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER RISK; CANCER SCREENING; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CHRONIC LIVER DISEASE; COLON ADENOMA; COLON CARCINOMA; COLON POLYP; COLONOSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DYSPLASIA; ETHNICITY; FEMALE; HEPATITIS B; HISPANIC; HUMAN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER GRAFT REJECTION; LIVER HISTOLOGY; LIVER POLYCYSTIC DISEASE; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MONOTHERAPY; PRIMARY BILIARY CIRRHOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SECOND CANCER; SEX RATIO; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TREATMENT INDICATION; UNITED STATES;

AGED; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; COLONIC NEOPLASMS; COLONIC POLYPS; COLONOSCOPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; INCIDENCE; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD;

EID: 45449099721     PISSN: 00411345     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.transproceed.2008.02.070     Document Type: Article

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