- Case Report
- A Case of Cytomegalovirus Colitis which Occurred During Treatment of Hemophagocytic Syndrome
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Sang-Nam Bae, Sung-Ryon Ahn, Yun-Jin Lee, Young-Tak Lim, Jae-Hong Park, Kyung-Un Choi, Chang-Hun Lee
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Clin Exp Pediatr. 2001;44(9):1075-1080. Published online September 15, 2001
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Cytomegalovirus(CMV) colitis is an important opportunistic infection in immunocompromised individuals.
The clinical symptoms are abdominal pain, diarrhea, colonic hemorrhage and perforation.
The endoscopic appearance shows three characteristic features with focal or diffuse inflammatory
changes, submucosal hemorrhagic spots, and well demarcated ulcers. We experienced a case of
CMV colitis in an 8-year-old girl presented with Stevens-Johnson syndrome, vanishing bile duct
syndrome and infection-associated hemophagocytic histiocytosis, which... |
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