Healing of sickle cell ulcers during pregnancy: A favourable effect of foetal cell transfer?

Journal of the European Academy of Dermatology and Venereology

Volumn 22, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 1256-1257

  Droitcourt, C ^a,b   Khosrotehrani, K ^a,b   Girot, R ^a,b   Aractingi, S ^a,b  

^a SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^b HÔPITAL TENON   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GROWTH FACTOR; HYDROXYUREA;

ADULT; CASE REPORT; CELL TRANSFER; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; FEMALE; FETUS CELL; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; KERATINOCYTE; LEG ULCER; LETTER; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELAPSE; SICKLE CELL ANEMIA; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WOUND DRESSING;

ADULT; ANEMIA, SICKLE CELL; CHRONIC DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEG ULCER; MATERNAL-FETAL EXCHANGE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, HEMATOLOGIC;

EID: 51649098430     PISSN: 09269959     EISSN: 14683083     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-3083.2008.02602.x     Document Type: Letter

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