title: Stool smears for diagnosis of intestinal acute graft-versus-host disease.
abstract: A patient with severe diarrhea was successfully diagnosed as having acute intestinal GVHD on stool smear through detection of detached intestinal epithelial cells with apoptosis. Since a stool smear can be easily obtained non-invasively, it is a possible tool for the diagnosis of acute intestinal GVHD.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pediatrics, School of Medicine, Chiba University, Chiba, Japan.
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Hirano
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Kondo
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Kondo
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Kurosawa
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Suwabe
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Noguchi
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Miura
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Kakuda
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Sato
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Niimi
mesh_terms: D000208:Acute Disease; D016026:Bone Marrow Transplantation / Q000009:adverse effects / Q000473:pathology; D006086:Graft vs Host Disease / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000209:etiology / Q000473:pathology; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007410:Intestinal Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000209:etiology / Q000473:pathology; D008297:Male; D054198:Precursor Cell Lymphoblastic Leukemia-Lymphoma / Q000628:therapy