Early and late-onset acute GvHD following hematopoietic cell transplantation: CT features of gastrointestinal involvement with clinical and pathological correlation

European Journal of Radiology

Volumn 73, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 594-600

  Brodoefel, H ^a   Bethge, W ^a   Vogel, M ^a   Fenchel, M ^a   Faul, C ^a   Wehrmann, M ^a   Claussen, C ^a   Horger, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Abdominal CT; Acute intestinal GvHD; Correlation with clinical and pathological grading; Late onset GvHD

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL CT; CLINICAL GRADING; CT SCAN; CUT-OFF; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ENHANCED SCAN; HEMATOPOIETIC CELL; LARGE BOWEL; SMALL BOWEL; WALL THICKENING;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSIS; MORPHOLOGY; PATHOLOGY;

GRADING;

ACUTE GRAFT VERSUS HOST DISEASE; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS;

ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASES; GRAFT VS HOST DISEASE; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOGRAPHY, ABDOMINAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TRANSPLANTATION CONDITIONING;

EID: 77949487044     PISSN: 0720048X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejrad.2009.01.011     Document Type: Article

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