Niemann-Pick disease type C (a cellular cholesterol lipidosis) treated by bone marrow transplantation

Bone Marrow Transplantation

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 103-107

  Hsu, Y S ^b   Hwu, W L ^b   Huang, S F ^b   Lu, M Y ^b   Chen, R L ^b   Lin, D T ^b   Peng, S S F ^b   Lin, K H ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^b NONE

Author keywords

BMT; Lysosomal storage disease; Niemann Pick type C disease

Indexed keywords

CHOLESTEROL; MEMBRANE RECEPTOR;

ALLOGENIC BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION; ARTICLE; BONE MARROW BIOPSY; BRAIN ATROPHY; CASE REPORT; CELL INFILTRATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FAILURE TO THRIVE; FEMALE; HEPATOSPLENOMEGALY; HLA MATCHING; HUMAN; LIPIDOSIS; LIVER BIOPSY; LOWER RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; LUNG INFILTRATE; LYSOSOME STORAGE DISEASE; MACROPHAGE; NIEMANN PICK DISEASE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELAPSE; SIBLING; SKIN FIBROBLAST;

EID: 0032792203     PISSN: 02683369     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.bmt.1701826     Document Type: Article

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