Outcomes among 562 recipients of placental-blood transplants from unrelated donors

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 339, Issue 22, 1998, Pages 1565-1577

  Rubinstein, Pablo ^a   Carrier, Carmelita ^a   Scaradavou, Andromachi ^a   Kurtzberg, Joanne ^b   Adamson, John ^a   Migliaccio, Anna Ritá ^a   Berkowitz, Richard L ^c   Cabbad, Michael ^d   Dobrila, N Ludy ^a   Taylor, Patricia E ^a   Rosenfield, Richard E ^a   Stevens, Cladd E ^a  

^a NEW YORK BLOOD CENTER   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c MOUNT SINAI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d BROOKLYN HOSPITAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD DONOR; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CANCER THERAPY; CHILD; FEMALE; GRAFT VERSUS HOST REACTION; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL; HLA TYPING; HUMAN; INFANT; LEUKEMIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PLACENTA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELAPSE;

ACTUARIAL ANALYSIS; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; EVALUATION STUDIES; FEMALE; FETAL BLOOD; GRAFT SURVIVAL; GRAFT VS HOST DISEASE; HEMATOLOGIC DISEASES; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; HISTOCOMPATIBILITY TESTING; HUMANS; INFANT; LEUKEMIA; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LYMPHOMA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PLACENTA; RECURRENCE; RISK;

EID: 0032569779     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJM199811263392201     Document Type: Article

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