title: A case of small intestinal cast causing SBO in complicated intestinal graft-versus-host disease.
abstract: We report an unusual case of small bowel obstruction caused by an intestinal cast in an 8-year-old female who developed intestinal graft-versus-host disease (GVHD) following two unrelated bone marrow transplants for aplastic anemia, and highlight the pathophysiology, common presentations, and surgical complications of intestinal GVHD from the surgeons' perspective.
authors.affiliation: Department of Surgery, MedStar Georgetown University Hospital, 3800 Reservoir Road NW, 4PHC, Washington, DC, 20007, USA.
authors.forename: Christa N
authors.initials: CN
authors.lastname: Grant
authors.forename: Eric D
authors.initials: ED
authors.lastname: Nellis
authors.forename: A Alfred
authors.initials: AA
authors.lastname: Chahine
mesh_terms: D000741:Anemia, Aplastic / Q000628:therapy; D016026:Bone Marrow Transplantation; D002648:Child; D017809:Fatal Outcome; D005260:Female; D006086:Graft vs Host Disease / Q000150:complications*; D006801:Humans; D007415:Intestinal Obstruction / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000209:etiology* / Q000601:surgery*; D007421:Intestine, Small; D011006:Pneumatosis Cystoides Intestinalis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000209:etiology* / Q000601:surgery*; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed