Donors with central nervous system malignancies: Are they truly safe?

Transplantation

Volumn 76, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 340-343

  Buell, Joseph F ^a,b   Trofe, Jennifer ^a   Sethuraman, Gopalan ^a   Hanaway, Michael J ^a   Beebe, Thomas M ^a   Gross, Thomas G ^a   Alloway, Rita ^a   First, M Roy ^a   Woodle, E Steve ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTOMA; BRAIN VENTRICLE PERITONEUM SHUNT; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER GRADING; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM TUMOR; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CRANIOTOMY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; GLIOBLASTOMA; HIGH GRADE TUMOR; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MEDULLOBLASTOMA; METASTASIS; ORGAN DONOR; ORGAN SHORTAGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; TUMOR TRANSMISSION; VENTRICULOATRIAL SHUNT;

ASTROCYTOMA; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CEREBELLAR NEOPLASMS; GLIOBLASTOMA; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MEDULLOBLASTOMA; ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; TISSUE AND ORGAN PROCUREMENT; TISSUE DONORS;

EID: 0042266767     PISSN: 00411337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.TP.0000076094.64973.D8     Document Type: Article

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