Successful umbilical cord blood transplantation in a child with dyskeratosis congenita after a fludarabine-based reduced-intensity conditioning regimen [2]

British Journal of Haematology

Volumn 119, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 573-574

  Nobili, Bruno ^a   Rossi, Gabriele ^b   De Stefano, Piero ^b   Zecca, Marco ^b   Giorgiani, Giovanna ^b   Perrotta, Silverio ^a   Canazzio, Anna ^c   Locatelli, Franco ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

^c Ospedale Pausillipon   (Italy)

Author keywords

Conditioning regime; Cord blood transplantation; Dyskeratosis congenita; Fludarabine; Reduced intensity

Indexed keywords

CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; CYCLOSPORIN A; FLUDARABINE; HEMOGLOBIN; THYMOCYTE ANTIBODY;

APLASTIC ANEMIA; BLOOD CELL COUNT; CASE REPORT; CHIMERA; DYSKERATOSIS CONGENITA; GRAFT VERSUS HOST REACTION; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; HEMOGLOBIN DETERMINATION; HLA MATCHING; HUMAN; HYPERHIDROSIS; HYPOTRICHOSIS; IMMUNE STATUS; LETTER; MALE; MICROCEPHALY; NAIL DYSTROPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; SHORT STATURE; SKIN PIGMENTATION; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UMBILICAL CORD BLOOD;

ANTIMETABOLITES; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CORD BLOOD STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; DYSKERATOSIS CONGENITA; HUMANS; MALE; TRANSPLANTATION CONDITIONING; TRANSPLANTATION, HOMOLOGOUS; VIDARABINE;

EID: 0036441421     PISSN: 00071048     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2141.2002.03835_2.x     Document Type: Letter

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