Understanding Umbilical Cord Blood Banking. What Women Need to Know Before Deciding

Women's Health Issues

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 277-280

  Kharaboyan, Linda ^a   Knoppers, Bartha Maria ^a   Avard, Denise ^a   Nisker, Jeff ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b WESTERN UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLOOD BANK; CONFIDENTIALITY; CORD BLOOD STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; EDITORIAL; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; OBSTETRIC CARE; UMBILICAL CORD BLOOD;

BLOOD BANKS; BLOOD DONORS; FEMALE; FETAL BLOOD; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; MOTHERS; PATIENT SATISFACTION; UNITED STATES;

EID: 34548410763     PISSN: 10493867     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.whi.2006.03.006     Document Type: Editorial

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