Unrelated cord blood transplantation in an infant with severe multisystem Langerhans cell histiocytosis: Clinical outcome, engraftment and culture of monocyte-derived dendritic cells [4]

Bone Marrow Transplantation

Volumn 33, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 875-876

  Meyer Wentrup, F ^a   Foell, J ^a   Wawer, A ^a   Burdach, S ^a  

^a MARTIN LUTHER UNIVERSITY HALLE WITTENBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYCLOSPORIN A; ETOPOSIDE; GRANULOCYTE COLONY STIMULATING FACTOR; METHOTREXATE; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID 2 MORPHOLINOETHYL ESTER; PREDNISOLONE; VINBLASTINE;

ALLOGENEIC HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; ANAMNESIS; BONE MARROW SUPPRESSION; CASE REPORT; CELL CULTURE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CORD BLOOD STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; DENDRITIC CELL; DISEASE SEVERITY; DONOR; GRAFT FAILURE; GRAFT SURVIVAL; GRAFT VERSUS HOST REACTION; HISTIOCYTOSIS X; HLA MATCHING; HUMAN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; INFANT; LANGERHANS CELL; LETTER; MALE; MONOCYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN BIOPSY;

COLONY-FORMING UNITS ASSAY; CORD BLOOD STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; DENDRITIC CELLS; GRAFT VS HOST DISEASE; HISTIOCYTOSIS, LANGERHANS-CELL; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MONOCYTES; TRANSPLANTATION CHIMERA;

EID: 1942537913     PISSN: 02683369     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.bmt.1704441     Document Type: Letter

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