Umbilical cord blood transplant from unrelated HLA-mismatched donors in children with high risk leukemia

Bone Marrow Transplantation

Volumn 23, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 549-554

  Arcese, W ^a,b   Guglielmi, C ^a   Iori, A P ^a   Screnci, M ^a   Carmini, D ^a   Testi, A M ^a   Moleti, M L ^a   Mengarelli, A ^a   Del Giudice, I ^a   Cimino, G ^a   Elia, L ^a   Rapanotti, M C ^a   Perrone, P ^a   Laurenti, L ^a   Gentile, G ^a   Boecklin, F ^a   Romano, A ^a   De Felice, L ^a   Mandelli, F ^a  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b Cattedra di Ematologia   (Italy)

Author keywords

Children; Cord blood; Leukemia; Transplantation

Indexed keywords

CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; CYCLOSPORIN A; ETOPOSIDE; LYMPHOCYTE ANTIBODY; METHYLPREDNISOLONE;

ACUTE GRANULOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; ACUTE LYMPHOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CHILD; CHRONIC MYELOID LEUKEMIA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; GRAFT FAILURE; GRAFT VERSUS HOST REACTION; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HLA MATCHING; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LEUKEMIA; NEUTROPHIL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELAPSE; TOXICITY; UMBILICAL CORD BLOOD; WHOLE BODY RADIATION;

EID: 0032982497     PISSN: 02683369     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.bmt.1701615     Document Type: Article

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