The NIH consensus criteria for chronic graft-versus-host disease: Far more than just another classification

Leukemia

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 1-2

  Socie G ^a,b,c  

^a INSERM   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DIDEROT   (France)

^c SAINT LOUIS HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT;

ACUTE GRAFT VERSUS HOST DISEASE; ALLOGENEIC HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER STAGING; CHRONIC GRAFT VERSUS HOST DISEASE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT TOOL; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONSENSUS; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DISEASE ACTIVITY; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE DURATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; EDITORIAL; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMAN; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; INCIDENCE; INFLAMMATORY DISEASE; LEUKEMIA; LEUKEMIA RELAPSE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; REDUCED INTENSITY CONDITIONING; SCORING SYSTEM;

EID: 58249117758     PISSN: 08876924     EISSN: 14765551     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/leu.2008.277     Document Type: Editorial

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