Abstract
Acute cutaneous graft-versus-host disease (aGVHD) has a variety of clinical presentations. In the early posttransplantation setting, histologic confirmation of aGVHD via skin biopsy is frequently equivocal. Additional clinical information may be necessary to differentiate aGVHD from its clinical mimickers such as viral exanthema, morbilliform drug eruptions, engraftment syndrome (ES), pre-engraftment syndrome (PES), and in severe cases, Stevens-Johnson syndrome (SJS) and toxic epidermal necrolysis (TEN) [1–3].
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Cotliar, J.A. (2017). Clinical Presentation of Acute Cutaneous Graft-Versus-Host Disease. In: Cotliar, J. (eds) Atlas of Graft-versus-Host Disease. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-46952-2_3
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