Role of primacy of birth in HLA-identical sibling transplantation [1]

Blood

Volumn 110, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 468-469

  Bucher, Christoph ^a   Stern, Martin ^b   Buser, Andreas ^b   Heim, Dominik ^b   Paulussen, Michael ^b   Halter, Jörg ^b   Tsakiris, Dimitrios ^b   Droll, Armin ^b   Meyer Monard, Sandrine ^b   Tichelli, Andre ^b   Passweg, Jakob ^b   Gratwohl, Alois ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HLA ANTIGEN;

CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; DONOR; FOLLOW UP; GRAFT VERSUS HOST REACTION; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; HLA MATCHING; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; LETTER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MORTALITY; PERIPHERAL BLOOD STEM CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELAPSE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SIBLING; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 34347394321     PISSN: 00064971     EISSN: 00064971     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1182/blood-2007-02-076257     Document Type: Letter

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