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What test is used to diagnose graft versus host disease?

a) Liver biopsy

b) Skin biopsy

c) Bone marrow biopsy

d) Intestinal biopsy

e) All the above

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Answer e. Depending on the site of the disease, each of the options may be biopsied for diagnostic and prognostic purposes. Bone marrow biopsy may be helpful in differentiating acute from chronic GVHD.

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This question originally printed in the Pediatric Anesthesiology Review Topics kindle book series, and appears courtesy of Naerthwyn Press, LLC.

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