International Grading Scheme for Acute Cellular Rejection in Small-Bowel Transplantation: Single-Center Experience

Transplantation Proceedings

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 47-53

  Ruiz, P ^a   Takahashi, H ^a   Delacruz, V ^a   Island, E ^a   Selvaggi, G ^a   Nishida, S ^a   Moon, J ^a   Smith, L ^a   Asaoka, T ^a   Levi, D ^a   Tekin, A ^a   Tzakis, A G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE GRAFT REJECTION; ACUTE VASCULAR REJECTION; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CELL INFILTRATION; CHILD; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; CORRELATIONAL STUDY; DISEASE DURATION; EXPERIENCE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTESTINAL FIBROSIS; INTESTINE BIOPSY; INTESTINE TRANSPLANTATION; LAMINA PROPRIA; LYMPHOCYTE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; NEWBORN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RATING SCALE; SAMPLE;

ACUTE DISEASE; BIOPSY; GRAFT REJECTION; HUMANS; INTESTINE, SMALL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TRANSPLANTATION, HOMOLOGOUS; VISCERA;

EID: 76749162718     PISSN: 00411345     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.transproceed.2009.12.026     Document Type: Article

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