Graft-versus-Host Disease Associated with Transfusion of Blood from Unrelated HLA-Homozygous Donors

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 328, Issue 11, 1993, Pages 766-770

  Shivdasani, Ramesh A ^a,c   Haluska, Frank G ^a,c   Dock, Nancy L ^d   Dover, Jeffrey S ^b,c   Kineke, Elise J ^a   Anderson, Kenneth C ^a,c  

^a DANA FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^d AMERICAN RED CROSS BLOOD SERVICES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; GRAFT VERSUS HOST REACTION; HAPLOTYPE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HLA SYSTEM; HLA TYPING; HUMAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SKIN BIOPSY;

BLOOD COMPONENT TRANSFUSION; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; CASE REPORT; GRAFT VS HOST DISEASE; HLA ANTIGENS; HOMOZYGOTE; HUMAN; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGE;

EID: 0027503013     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJM199303183281105     Document Type: Article

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