Cord blood units for adult transplantation: Child's play no longer

Transfusion

Volumn 45, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 829-831

  Snyder, Edward L ^a   Haley, N Rebecca ^b  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Stemco Biomedical Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLOOD DONOR; CRYOPRESERVATION; EDITORIAL; ETHICS; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; HUMAN; TRANSPLANTATION; UMBILICAL CORD BLOOD;

ADULT; BLOOD BANKS; BLOOD PRESERVATION; CHILD; CORD BLOOD STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; FETAL BLOOD; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; HISTOCOMPATIBILITY TESTING; HUMANS; TRANSPLANTATION IMMUNOLOGY; TRANSPLANTATION, HOMOLOGOUS;

EID: 20444375414     PISSN: 00411132     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1537-2995.2005.05103.x     Document Type: Editorial

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