Antral mass due to cytomegalovirus infection requiring gastrectomy in a liver transplant recipient

Transplant Infectious Disease

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 354-357

  Llado L ^a   Castellote, J ^a   Fabregat, J ^a   Carratala J ^a   Serrano, T ^a   Ramos, E ^a   Torras, J ^a   Rafecas, A ^a  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARI DE BELLVITGE   (Spain)

Author keywords

Antral mass; Biliary stricture; Cytomegalovirus; Gastrectomy; Liver transplantation

Indexed keywords

BARIUM; GANCICLOVIR; VALGANCICLOVIR;

AGED; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; BILE DUCT OBSTRUCTION; CASE REPORT; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTION; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; FOLLOW UP; GASTRECTOMY; GASTROINTESTINAL BIOPSY; GENOTYPE; GRAFT RECIPIENT; HEPATOJEJUNOSTOMY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INFECTION PREVENTION; LABORATORY TEST; LIVER GRAFT; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY; MALE; MALLORY WEISS SYNDROME; NEUTROPENIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFLUX ESOPHAGITIS; ROUX Y ANASTOMOSIS; SEROLOGY; STOMACH ANTRUM; STOMACH ANTRUM RESECTION; STOMACH BIOPSY; STOMACH TUMOR; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VOMITING;

AGED; ANTIVIRAL AGENTS; BILIARY TRACT DISEASES; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTIONS; GANCICLOVIR; GASTRECTOMY; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASES; HUMANS; JEJUNOSTOMY; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PYLORIC ANTRUM; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 52449133156     PISSN: 13982273     EISSN: 13993062     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-3062.2008.00311.x     Document Type: Article

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