The risk of transmitting cancer with transfusion

Lancet

Volumn 369, Issue 9574, 2007, Pages 1670-1671

  Utter, Garth H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER PATIENT; DATA BASE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; VIRUS TRANSMISSION;

EID: 34248586817     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(07)60759-4     Document Type: Note

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