Biology of Blood and Marrow Transplantation
Volume 15, Issue 5 , Pages 643-648 , May 2009

Seeing What's Out of Sight: Wireless Capsule Endoscopy's Unique Ability to Visualize and Accurately Assess the Severity of Gastrointestinal Graft-versus-Host-Disease

  • Prakash Varadarajan

      Affiliations

    • Department of Medicine, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Buffalo, New York
    • ,
  • Lauren M. Dunford

      Affiliations

    • Department of Medicine, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Buffalo, New York
    • ,
  • Julie A. Thomas

      Affiliations

    • Department of Medicine, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Buffalo, New York
    • ,
  • Karen Brown

      Affiliations

    • Department of Medicine, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Buffalo, New York
    • ,
  • Pamela Paplham

      Affiliations

    • Department of Medicine, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Buffalo, New York
    • ,
  • Margaret Syta

      Affiliations

    • Department of Medicine, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Buffalo, New York
    • ,
  • Michael Schiff

      Affiliations

    • Department of Medicine, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Buffalo, New York
    • ,
  • Swamithan Padmanabhan

      Affiliations

    • Department of Medicine, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Buffalo, New York
    • ,
  • Minoo Battiwalla

      Affiliations

    • Department of Medicine, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Buffalo, New York
    • ,
  • Shannon Smiley

      Affiliations

    • Department of Medicine, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Buffalo, New York
    • ,
  • Theresa Hahn

      Affiliations

    • Department of Medicine, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Buffalo, New York
    • ,
  • Philip L. McCarthy Jr.

      Affiliations

    • Department of Medicine, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Buffalo, New York
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorrespondence and reprint requests: Philip L. McCarthy, Jr., MD, Blood and Marrow Transplantation Program, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Department of Medicine, Elm and Carlton Streets, Buffalo, NY 14263.

Received 21 January 2009 ,Accepted 3 February 2009.

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 Financial disclosure: See Acknowledgments on page 647.

PII: S1083-8791(09)00076-7

doi: 10.1016/j.bbmt.2009.02.002

Biology of Blood and Marrow Transplantation
Volume 15, Issue 5 , Pages 643-648 , May 2009

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