Gastrointestinal manifestations of leukemia

Journal of Gastroenterology and Hepatology (Australia)

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 458-463

  Ebert, Ellen C ^a   Hagspiel, Klaus D ^b  

^a ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

Esophagus; Ischemia; Liver; Neutropenic colitis; Spleen; Stomach

Indexed keywords

AMPHOTERICIN B; CYTARABINE; FLUCONAZOLE; GALLIUM 67; IDARUBICIN; TIOGUANINE;

ABDOMINAL DISTENSION; ABDOMINAL PAIN; ABDOMINAL TENDERNESS; ACUTE GRANULOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; ACUTE LYMPHOBLASTIC LEUKEMIA; ARTERIOGRAPHY; ARTIFICIAL EMBOLISM; ASCENDING COLON; ASPERGILLUS; AUTOPSY; CANCER COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER INVASION; CANCER SURVIVAL; CAUSE OF DEATH; CECUM; CHOLECYSTITIS; CHRONIC LYMPHATIC LEUKEMIA; CHRONIC MYELOID LEUKEMIA; COLON MOTILITY; COLON OBSTRUCTION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CRYPTOCOCCUS; DIARRHEA; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE DURATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DYSPHAGIA; ECHOGRAPHY; ESOPHAGITIS; ESOPHAGUS; FEVER; GANGRENE; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; GASTROINTESTINAL INFECTION; GASTROINTESTINAL SYMPTOM; GRAFT VERSUS HOST REACTION; HISTOPLASMA; HUMAN; ILEUM; INFLAMMATORY CELL; INTUSSUSCEPTION; ISCHEMIC COLITIS; LEUKEMIA; LEUKOPENIA; LIVER ABSCESS; MUCOR; NAUSEA; NEUTROPENIC ENTEROCOLITIS; NEUTROPHIL COUNT; PERITONITIS; PETECHIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETICULOENDOTHELIAL SYSTEM; REVIEW; SEPTICEMIA; STOMACH; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; ULCER; VOMITING;

EID: 84857263976     PISSN: 08159319     EISSN: 14401746     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1746.2011.06908.x     Document Type: Review

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