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Stool smears for diagnosis of intestinal acute graft-versus-host disease

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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.

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  1. Department of Pediatrics, School of Medicine, Chiba University, Chiba, Japan

    K Hirano, K Kurosawa, S Suwabe, Y Noguchi, N Miura, H Kakuda, T Sato & H Niimi

  2. Department of Pathology, School of Medicine, Chiba University, Chiba, Japan

    F Kondo & Y Kondo

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Hirano, K., Kondo, F., Kondo, Y. et al. Stool smears for diagnosis of intestinal acute graft-versus-host disease. Bone Marrow Transplant 24, 799–801 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1038/sj.bmt.1701958

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