The London Cord Blood Bank: Analysis of banking and transplantation outcome

British Journal of Haematology

Volumn 125, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 358-365

  Davey, Sue ^a   Armitage, Sue ^a   Rocha, Vanderson ^b   Garnier, Federico ^b   Brown, Juliette ^a   Brown, Colin J ^a   Warwick, Ruth ^a   Fehily, Deidre ^a   Watt, Suzanne ^a   Gluckman, Eliane ^b   Vora, Ajay ^c   Contreras, Marcela ^a   Navarrete, Cristina V ^a  

^a NHS BLOOD AND TRANSPLANT   (United Kingdom)

^b SAINT LOUIS HOSPITAL   (France)

^c SHEFFIELD CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Clinical outcome; Cord blood banking; Cord blood stem cells; Haematopoietic stem cells; Transplantation

Indexed keywords

AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; BLOOD BANK; BODY WEIGHT; CANCER SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORD BLOOD STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; DATA ANALYSIS; ETHNOLOGY; FOLLOW UP; GRAFT VERSUS HOST REACTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; MORTALITY; NEUTROPHIL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BLOOD BANKS; BLOOD DONORS; BLOOD PRESERVATION; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CRYOPRESERVATION; ETHNIC GROUPS; FEMALE; FETAL BLOOD; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GRAFT SURVIVAL; GRAFT VS HOST DISEASE; HEMATOLOGIC NEOPLASMS; HISTOCOMPATIBILITY TESTING; HUMANS; INFANT; LONDON; MALE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 2442528824     PISSN: 00071048     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2141.2004.04923.x     Document Type: Article

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