Gastric bleeding due to graft-vs-host disease: Discrepancy between endoscopic and histologic assessment

American Journal of Clinical Pathology

Volumn 122, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 919-925

  Yeh, Su Peng ^a,b   Liao, Yu Mine ^a   Hsu, Chang Hu ^a   Chen, Chi Long ^a   Shen, Ying Chun ^a   Hsueh, Chung Tsen ^a,b   Huang, Hsin Hui ^a   Lin, Chiao Lin ^a   Chiu, Chang Fang ^a,b  

^a CHINA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^b CHINA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Endoscopy; Graft vs host disease; GVHD; Stomach; Transplantation

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT;

ADULT; ALLOGENEIC HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CYTOPATHOLOGY; ERYTHEMA; GASTROSCOPY; GRAFT REJECTION; GRAFT VERSUS HOST REACTION; HUMAN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; MALE; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; MEDICAL DOCUMENTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STOMACH BIOPSY; STOMACH HEMORRHAGE; STOMACH MUCOSA; STOMACH ULCER;

EID: 9644273809     PISSN: 00029173     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1309/23DAL9F6P74XWJHL     Document Type: Article

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