Unrelated cord blood transplantation in a girl with Hoyeraal-Hreidarsson syndrome

Bone Marrow Transplantation

Volumn 42, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 293-294

  Coman, D ^a   Herbert, A R ^a   McGill, J ^a   Lockwood, L ^a   Hallahan, A R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; CYCLOSPORIN A; FLUDARABINE; GRANULOCYTE COLONY STIMULATING FACTOR; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID; PREDNISOLONE; THYMOCYTE ANTIBODY;

ARTICLE; ATAXIA; BONE MARROW BIOPSY; BONE MARROW DEPRESSION; CASE REPORT; CEREBELLAR ATAXIA; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONGENITAL DISORDER; CORD BLOOD STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTION; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; FEMALE; GRAFT VERSUS HOST REACTION; HOYERAAL HREIDARSSON; HUMAN; INFANT; MOUTH ULCER; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYSTEMIC DISEASE; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; TREATMENT RESPONSE; WHOLE BODY RADIATION;

CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CORD BLOOD STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; DYSKERATOSIS CONGENITA; FEMALE; HUMANS; SYNDROME; THROMBOCYTOPENIA;

EID: 51049109411     PISSN: 02683369     EISSN: 14765365     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/bmt.2008.163     Document Type: Article

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