Successful bone marrow transplantation from an HLA-identical unrelated donor in a patient with hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis

Bone Marrow Transplantation

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 183-185

  Adachi, S ^a   Kubota, M ^a,c   Akiyama, Y ^a   Kato, T ^a   Kitoh, T ^b   Furusho, K ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Maizuru Municipal Hospital   (Japan)

^c NONE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Etoposide; Hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis; Unrelated donor transplant

Indexed keywords

ACICLOVIR; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; CYCLOSPORIN A; ETOPOSIDE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; PREDNISOLONE; THYMOCYTE ANTIBODY;

ARTICLE; BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER REGRESSION; CASE REPORT; FEMALE; HEMOPHAGOCYTIC SYNDROME; HLA MATCHING; HUMAN; MALIGNANT HISTIOCYTOSIS; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPLENECTOMY;

EID: 0031014155     PISSN: 02683369     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.bmt.1700622     Document Type: Article

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