Colonoscopy and Sigmoidoscopy are Equally Effective for the Diagnosis of Colonic Acute Graft-versus-Host Disease in Patients with Diarrhea after Allogeneic Stem Cell Transplantation: A Prospective Controlled Trial

Biology of Blood and Marrow Transplantation

Volumn 21, Issue 12, 2015, Pages 2086-2090

  Johansson, Jan Erik ^a   Nilsson, Ola ^a   Stotzer, Per Ove ^a  

^a SAHLGRENSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Colonoscopy; Graft versus host disease; Intestinal; Sigmoidoscopy

Indexed keywords

ACUTE GRAFT VERSUS HOST DISEASE; ADULT; AGED; ALLOGENEIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; ARTICLE; ASCENDING COLON; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLON BIOPSY; COLONOSCOPE; COLONOSCOPY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DESCENDING COLON; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; DIARRHEA; FEMALE; GOLD STANDARD; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGMOIDOSCOPY; TRANSVERSE COLON; ACUTE DISEASE; ALLOTRANSPLANTATION; BIOPSY; CLINICAL TRIAL; COLON; GRAFT VS HOST DISEASE; HEMATOLOGIC NEOPLASMS; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; IMMUNOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

BIOLOGICAL MARKER;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; AGED; BIOMARKERS; BIOPSY; COLON; COLONOSCOPY; DIARRHEA; FEMALE; GRAFT VS HOST DISEASE; HEMATOLOGIC NEOPLASMS; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SIGMOIDOSCOPY; TRANSPLANTATION, HOMOLOGOUS;

EID: 84947493028     PISSN: 10838791     EISSN: 15236536     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbmt.2015.07.009     Document Type: Article

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