High-resolution typing for unrelated donor transplantation: How far do we go?

Best Practice and Research: Clinical Haematology

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 537-541

  Horowitz, Mary M ^a  

^a MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

Author keywords

allele; antigen; bone marrow; cord blood; high resolution typing; human leucocyte antigen (HLA); low expression loci; low resolution typing; match; peripheral blood; Transplantation

Indexed keywords

HLA A ANTIGEN; HLA B ANTIGEN; HLA C ANTIGEN; HLA DR ANTIGEN;

ACUTE GRANULOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; AGE; BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER STAGING; DONOR; GENE LOCUS; HLA TYPING; HUMAN; KARNOFSKY PERFORMANCE STATUS; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SIBLING; UMBILICAL CORD BLOOD;

HISTOCOMPATIBILITY TESTING; HUMANS; LEUKEMIA, MYELOID, ACUTE; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; TISSUE DONORS;

EID: 71749109588     PISSN: 15216926     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.beha.2009.09.006     Document Type: Review

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