Complete lymphoid chimerism and chronic graft-versus-host disease in an infant recipient of a hepatic allograft from an HLA-homozygous parental living donor

Transplantation

Volumn 62, Issue 10, 1996, Pages 1516-1519

  Whitington, P F ^a   Rubin, C M ^b   Alonso, E M ^b   Mckeithan, T W ^c   Anastasi, J ^c   Hart, J ^c   Thistlethwaite, J R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HLA ANTIGEN;

ADULT; ALLOGRAFT; APLASTIC ANEMIA; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CHIMERA; FEMALE; GRAFT VERSUS HOST REACTION; HLA MATCHING; HLA TYPING; HOMOZYGOSITY; HUMAN; INFANT; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONOR; LYMPHOID TISSUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECIPIENT; SKIN DISEASE;

EID: 0029809154     PISSN: 00411337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00007890-199611270-00025     Document Type: Article

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