Involvement of the esophagus and stomach as a first manifestation of varicella zoster virus infection after allogeneic bone marrow transplantation

Internal Medicine

Volumn 43, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 861-864

  Takatoku, Masaaki ^a   Muroi, Kazuo ^a   Kawano Yamamoto, Chizuru ^a   Nagai, Tadashi ^a   Komatsu, Norio ^a   Ozawa, Keiya ^a  

^a JICHI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Acyclovir; BMT; FGS; Gastric ulcer; Visceral varicella zoster

Indexed keywords

ACICLOVIR; COTRIMOXAZOLE; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; CYTARABINE; INSULIN; METHOTREXATE; PREDNISOLONE; STEROID; TACROLIMUS; VIRUS DNA;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADULT; ADULT RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME; ALLOGENIC BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION; ARTICLE; BIOPSY TECHNIQUE; BLISTER; BLOOD ANALYSIS; CASE REPORT; CELL INCLUSION; CELL NUCLEUS; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISEASE SEVERITY; DNA DETERMINATION; DONOR; EPIGASTRIC PAIN; ESOPHAGUS INJURY; FEVER; GASTROSCOPY; GRAFT VERSUS HOST REACTION; HLA SYSTEM; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; MALE; MYELOPROLIFERATIVE DISORDER; NONHUMAN; PNEUMOCYSTIS PNEUMONIA; RECIPIENT; SKIN DEFECT; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; STOMACH LESION; STOMACH ULCER; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VARICELLA ZOSTER VIRUS; VIRUS INFECTION; VISCERA; WHOLE BODY RADIATION; WOUND HEALING;

BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION; CHICKENPOX; ESOPHAGEAL DISEASES; HERPESVIRUS 3, HUMAN; HUMANS; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED HOST; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTIONS; STOMACH DISEASES;

EID: 5044240382     PISSN: 09182918     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2169/internalmedicine.43.861     Document Type: Article

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