Genetic analysis of a sarcoma accidentally transplanted from a patient to a surgeon

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 335, Issue 20, 1996, Pages 1494-1496

  Gärtner, Hermine Valeria ^a   Seidl, Christian ^c   Luckenbach, Christine ^b   Schumm, Georg ^d   Seifried, Erhard ^c   Ritter, Horst ^b   Bültmann, Burkhard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^c Inst Transfus Med I   (Germany)

^d General Hospital   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; HLA DQ ANTIGEN; HLA DR ANTIGEN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER TRANSPLANTATION; CASE REPORT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA POLYMORPHISM; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HLA TYPING; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOLOGY; MALE; MALIGNANT FIBROUS HISTIOCYTOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGEON;

ABDOMINAL NEOPLASMS; ADULT; DISEASE TRANSMISSION, PATIENT-TO-PROFESSIONAL; GENES, MHC CLASS II; HAND; HISTIOCYTOMA, BENIGN FIBROUS; HISTOCOMPATIBILITY TESTING; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM TRANSPLANTATION; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; SURGERY;

EID: 0029907580     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJM199611143352004     Document Type: Article

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