Outcome After Allogeneic Bone Marrow Transplant for Leukemia in Older Adults

JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association

Volumn 270, Issue 1, 1993, Pages 57-60

  Ringdén, Olle ^a   Horowitz, Mary M ^a   Gale, Robert Peter ^a   Biggs, James C ^a   Gajewski, James ^a   Rimm, Alfred A ^a   Speck, Bruno ^a   Veum Stone, Judith A ^a   Witte, Theo ^a   Bortin, Mortimer M ^a  

^a KAROLINSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALLOGENIC BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION; APLASIA; ARTICLE; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER REGRESSION; FEMALE; GRAFT VERSUS HOST REACTION; HLA MATCHING; HUMAN; INTERSTITIAL PNEUMONIA; LEUKEMIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADULT; BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION; CAUSE OF DEATH; FEMALE; GRAFT VS HOST DISEASE; HUMAN; LEUKEMIA; LEUKEMIA, LYMPHOCYTIC, ACUTE, L2; LEUKEMIA, MYELOCYTIC, ACUTE; LEUKEMIA, MYELOID, CHRONIC; MALE; MIDDLE AGE; PROBABILITY; PULMONARY FIBROSIS; REGISTRIES; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TRANSPLANTATION, HOMOLOGOUS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0027180906     PISSN: 00987484     EISSN: 15383598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jama.1993.03510010063030     Document Type: Article

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