Cytomegalovirus infection in patients who required colectomy for toxic megacolon or severe steroid-refractory ulcerative colitis

Digestive Diseases and Sciences

Volumn 55, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 867-868

  Barahona Garrido, J ^a,b,c   Martinez Benitez B ^d   Espinosa Cardenas E ^d   Sarti, H M ^e,f   Gutierrez Manjarrez J I ^g   Aguirre Gutierrez R ^d,h   Tellez Avila, F I ^d,h   Coss Adame, E ^d,h   Garcia Juarez I ^d,h   Yamamoto Furusho, J K ^d,h  

^a Instituto de Enfermedades Digestivas y Nutricionales   (Guatemala)

^b Gastroenterology and Gastrointestinal Endoscopy Unit   (Guatemala)

^c Hospital General San Juan de Dios Guatemala   (Guatemala)

^d INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE CIENCIAS MÉDICAS Y NUTRICIÓN SALVADOR ZUBIRÁN   (Mexico)

^e Dermos   (Guatemala)

^f Instituto de Dermatología y Cirugía de Piel Prof Dr Fernando A Cordero C   (Guatemala)

^g UNIVERSITY OF GUADALAJARA   (Mexico)

^h UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EOSIN; HEMATOXYLIN; HYDROCORTISONE; STEROID;

COLON RESECTION; COMORBIDITY; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTION; DISEASE SEVERITY; EARLY INTERVENTION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LETTER; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TOXIC MEGACOLON; TREATMENT INDICATION; ULCERATIVE COLITIS; VIRUS IDENTIFICATION; DRUG RESISTANCE; NOTE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY;

COLECTOMY; COLITIS, ULCERATIVE; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTIONS; DRUG RESISTANCE; HUMANS; MEGACOLON, TOXIC; STEROIDS;

EID: 77949333282     PISSN: 01632116     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10620-009-1109-5     Document Type: Letter

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