Blood transfusions in children with cancer and hematologic disorders: Why, when, and how?

Pediatric Blood and Cancer

Volumn 44, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 114-116

  Buchanan, George R ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b CHILDREN S MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RHESUS ANTIGEN;

ALLOIMMUNIZATION; BLEEDING; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CHILD; CHILDHOOD CANCER; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTION; FATALITY; GRAFT VERSUS HOST REACTION; HEMATOLOGIC DISEASE; HEMOGLOBIN DETERMINATION; HUMAN; LEUKEMIA; LUNG INJURY; MORBIDITY; NOTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK BENEFIT ANALYSIS; SCREENING TEST; THROMBOCYTE TRANSFUSION; TRANSFUSION RELATED ACUTE LUNG INJURY;

CHILD; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; HEMATOLOGIC NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; PLATELET TRANSFUSION;

EID: 11144340926     PISSN: 15455009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pbc.20260     Document Type: Note

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