Granulocyte transfusion therapy: A new era?

Current Opinion in Hematology

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 1-2

  Dale, David C ^a   Price, Thomas H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; DEXAMETHASONE; GRANULOCYTE COLONY STIMULATING FACTOR;

ADD ON THERAPY; CHEMOTHERAPY; CLINICAL TRIAL; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG POTENTIATION; EDITORIAL; GRANULOCYTE; GRANULOCYTE TRANSFUSION THERAPY; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; HUMAN; NEUTROPENIA; NEUTROPHIL COUNT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURVIVAL RATE; TRANSFUSION;

DEXAMETHASONE; GRANULOCYTE COLONY-STIMULATING FACTOR; GRANULOCYTES; HUMANS; LEUKOCYTE TRANSFUSION; NEUTROPENIA; TISSUE DONORS;

EID: 58149120831     PISSN: 10656251     EISSN: 15317048     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MOH.0b013e32831d7953     Document Type: Editorial

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