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Postoperative erythroderma with change of HLA phenotypes from heterozygotes to homozygotes: a report of two cases.
European journal of haematology - 1 Apr 1991
Ito K, Fujita M, Norioka M, Yoshida H, Arii S, Tanaka J, Tobe T, Kakuyama M, Maruya E, Saji H
Abstract excerpt
Fatal "postoperative erythroderma" (POE) developed in 2 patients treated with liver lobectomy and the transfusion of fresh blood. Their clinical features and skin-histological findings were indicative of acute graft-versus-host disease (GVHD). The HLA phenotypes of circulating lymphocytes of the 2 patients were heterozygous but became homozygous late in the clinical course and were identical with those of the...
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