The Treatment of Thalassemia – Slow Progress and New Dilemmas

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 329, Issue 12, 1993, Pages 877-879

  Weatherall, D J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AZACITIDINE; BUTYRIC ACID DERIVATIVE; DEFEROXAMINE; HEMOGLOBIN F; HYDROXYUREA;

BETA THALASSEMIA; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION; EDITORIAL; GENE THERAPY; HUMAN; IRON CHELATION; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPLENECTOMY; SUBCUTANEOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION;

BETA-THALASSEMIA; BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION; CHILD; FETAL HEMOGLOBIN; HUMAN; INFANT, NEWBORN;

EID: 0027260496     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJM199309163291212     Document Type: Editorial

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