Immature reticulocytes as an early predictor of engraftment in autologous and allogeneic bone marrow transplantation

Clinical and Laboratory Haematology

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 47-54

  Noronha, J F A ^a   De Souza, C A ^a   Vigorito, A C ^a   Aranha, F J P ^a   Zulli, R ^a   Miranda, E C M ^a   Grotto, Helena Zerlotti Wolf ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMPINAS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Allogeneic bone marrow transplantation; Autologous bone marrow transplantation; Immature reticulocyte fraction; Reticulocytes

Indexed keywords

CD34 ANTIGEN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ALLOGENIC BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION; ARTICLE; AUTOLOGOUS BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION; CELL POPULATION; CELL TRANSPLANTATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVALUATION; FEMALE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; FLUORESCENCE; HEMATOLOGIC MALIGNANCY; HUMAN; LEUKOCYTE DIFFERENTIAL COUNT; MALE; MEAN CORPUSCULAR VOLUME; MEAN RETICULOCYTE VOLUME; NEUTROPHIL; PARAMETER; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETICULOCYTE COUNT; SCHOOL CHILD; STEM CELL; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BLOOD CELL COUNT; BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION; CHILD; ERYTHROCYTE INDICES; FEMALE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HEMATOLOGIC NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROBABILITY; PROGNOSIS; RETICULOCYTE COUNT; RETICULOCYTES; TRANSPLANTATION, AUTOLOGOUS; TRANSPLANTATION, HOMOLOGOUS;

EID: 0037329790     PISSN: 01419854     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2257.2003.00486.x     Document Type: Article

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