Successful hematopoietic reconstitution by transplantation of umbilical cord blood cells in a transfusion-dependent child with Diamond-Blackfan anemia

Bone Marrow Transplantation

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 83-85

  Bonno, M ^a   Azuma, E ^a   Nakano, T ^a   Higashikawa, M ^a   Kawaski, H ^a   Nishihara, H ^a   Obata, M ^a   Umemoto, M ^a   Sakatoku, H ^a   Komada, Y ^a   Ito, M ^a   Nagai, M ^a   Sakurai, M ^a  

^a MIE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Childhood; Cord blood transplantation; Diamond blackfan anemia; Hemosiderosis

Indexed keywords

BUSULFAN; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; CYCLOSPORIN A; LYMPHOCYTE ANTIBODY; METHOTREXATE;

ARTICLE; BLACKFAN DIAMOND ANEMIA; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CELL TRANSPLANTATION; CHILD; GRAFT VERSUS HOST REACTION; HEMATOPOIESIS; HLA MATCHING; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MALE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIBLING; UMBILICAL CORD BLOOD;

EID: 0031028557     PISSN: 02683369     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.bmt.1700607     Document Type: Article

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