Opinions regarding cord blood use need an update

Nature Reviews Cancer

Volumn 8, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 823-

  Nietfeld, J J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

APLASTIC ANEMIA; BLOOD BANK; BLOOD SAMPLING; CANCER INCIDENCE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CORD BLOOD STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; CRYOBIOLOGY; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; HUMAN; LETTER; LYMPHOMA; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL TECHNOLOGIST; NERVOUS SYSTEM TUMOR; NEUROBLASTOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; PUBLICATION; SARCOMA; STEM CELL EXPANSION; TREATMENT INDICATION; UMBILICAL CORD BLOOD;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BLOOD BANKS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CORD BLOOD STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; DECISION MAKING; FETAL BLOOD; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; PRIVATE SECTOR; PUBLIC SECTOR; STEM CELLS;

EID: 52649095851     PISSN: 1474175X     EISSN: 14741768     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrc2418-c1     Document Type: Letter

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