title: CT of gastrointestinal complications associated with hematopoietic stem cell transplantation.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  This article illustrates the characteristic CT findings of bowel damage related to drug toxicity, conditioning regimen, infections, and graft-versus-host disease (GVHD) in patients after hematopoietic stem cell transplantation.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Although some overlap exists in the CT appearances of the different causes of bowel wall inflammation, the findings are frequently unique enough to suggest a specific diagnosis. Awareness of the specific time of occurrence, intensity of clinical symptoms, preferred localization, and extent of accompanying extraintestinal findings help to distinguish the different pathologic entities.
authors.affiliation: Department of Diagnostic Radiology, Eberhard-Karls-University, Hoppe-Seyler-Str. 3, 72076 Tübingen, Germany.
authors.forename: Marc
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Schmit
authors.forename: Wolfgang
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Bethge
authors.forename: Robert
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Beck
authors.forename: Christoph
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Faul
authors.forename: Claus D
authors.initials: CD
authors.lastname: Claussen
authors.forename: Marius
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Horger
mesh_terms: D005759:Gastroenteritis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000209:etiology; D006086:Graft vs Host Disease / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000209:etiology; D018380:Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation / Q000009:adverse effects*; D006801:Humans; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed; D019172:Transplantation Conditioning / Q000009:adverse effects*