Expanding the role of umbilical cord blood transplantation

British Journal of Haematology

Volumn 137, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 20-35

  Brunstein, Claudio G ^a,b   Setubal, Daniela C ^a   Wagner, John E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b Mayo Mail Code 609   (United States)

Author keywords

Haematological malignancies; Non myeloablative conditioning regimen; Umbilical cord blood transplantation

Indexed keywords

CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; CYCLOSPORIN A; FLUDARABINE; STEROID;

ACUTE LEUKEMIA; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CELL THERAPY; CHRONIC MYELOID LEUKEMIA; GRAFT REJECTION; GRAFT VERSUS HOST REACTION; HEMATOLOGIC DISEASE; HEMATOLOGIC MALIGNANCY; HEMATOPOIESIS; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; HEMOGLOBINOPATHY; HUMAN; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; INBORN ERROR OF METABOLISM; LYMPHOMA; MYELODYSPLASTIC SYNDROME; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SURVIVAL RATE; SURVIVAL TIME; UMBILICAL CORD BLOOD;

ADULT; CHILD; CORD BLOOD STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; GRAFT SURVIVAL; GRAFT VS HOST DISEASE; HEMATOLOGIC NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; TRANSPLANTATION, HOMOLOGOUS;

EID: 33947270363     PISSN: 00071048     EISSN: 13652141     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2141.2007.06521.x     Document Type: Review

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