Principles and overview of allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation

Cancer Treatment and Research

Volumn 144, Issue , 2009, Pages 1-21

  Giralt, Sergio ^a   Bishop, Michael R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CASPOFUNGIN; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; DEFIBROTIDE; FLUCONAZOLE; GANCICLOVIR; ITRACONAZOLE; MESNA; VORICONAZOLE;

ACUTE GRANULOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; ACUTE LYMPHOBLASTIC LEUKEMIA; ALLOGENEIC HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; ASPERGILLOSIS; CANDIDIASIS; CATARACT; CHRONIC MYELOID LEUKEMIA; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTION; DONOR SELECTION; DRUG MEGADOSE; GRAFT FAILURE; GRAFT REJECTION; GRAFT VERSUS HOST REACTION; GROWTH HORMONE DEFICIENCY; HEMORRHAGIC CYSTITIS; HLA MATCHING; HODGKIN DISEASE; HUMAN; HYDRATION; HYPOGONADISM; HYPOTHYROIDISM; LEUKOENCEPHALOPATHY; LIVER VENOOCCLUSIVE DISEASE; LUNG FIBROSIS; MULTIPLE MYELOMA; MYELODYSPLASTIC SYNDROME; NONHODGKIN LYMPHOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; WHOLE BODY RADIATION;

EID: 73649147899     PISSN: 09273042     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-0-387-78580-6_1     Document Type: Review

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