Donor transmission of malignant melanoma to a liver graft recipient: Case report and literature review

Clinical Transplantation

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 571-574

  Kim, Jason K ^a   Carmody, Ian C ^a   Cohen, Ari J ^a   Loss, George E ^a  

^a OCHSNER CLINIC FOUNDATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Donor to host transmission

Indexed keywords

DNA; LIVER ENZYME; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID 2 MORPHOLINOETHYL ESTER; PREDNISONE; PROTEIN S 100; TACROLIMUS;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADULT; ALCOHOL LIVER CIRRHOSIS; ALPHA 1 ANTITRYPSIN DEFICIENCY; ARTICLE; ASCITES; BILIRUBIN BLOOD LEVEL; CASE REPORT; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DNA SEQUENCE; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GRAFT RECIPIENT; HEPATOMEGALY; HUMAN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; KARYOTYPE 46,XX; KARYOTYPE 46,XY; KIDNEY FAILURE; LIVER BIOPSY; LIVER GRAFT; LIVER GRAFT REJECTION; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MELANOMA; ORGAN DONOR; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETRANSPLANTATION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; STAINING; UREA NITROGEN BLOOD LEVEL;

FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIVER NEOPLASMS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MELANOMA; MIDDLE AGED; TISSUE DONORS;

EID: 68349144524     PISSN: 09020063     EISSN: 13990012     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-0012.2008.00928.x     Document Type: Article

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