Successful umbilical cord blood stem cell transplantation in a child with WHIM syndrome

European Journal of Haematology

Volumn 84, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 274-275

  Kriván, Gergely ^a   Erdos, Melinda ^b   Kállay, Krisztián ^a   Benyó, Gábor ^a   Tóth, Ágnes ^a   Sinkó, János ^a   Goda, Vera ^a   Tóth, Beáta ^b   Maródi, László ^b  

^a Szent Laszlo Hospital   (Hungary)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DEBRECEN   (Hungary)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

4 HYDROPEROXYCYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; BRONCHODILATING AGENT; BUSULFAN; CYCLOSPORIN A; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; MEROPENEM; METHYLPREDNISOLONE;

AUTOSOMAL DOMINANT DISORDER; CASE REPORT; CHILD; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; FEMALE; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GRAFT VERSUS HOST REACTION; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; HUMAN; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; LETTER; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; UMBILICAL CORD BLOOD; WARTS HYPOGAMMAGLOBULINEMIA INFECTIONS MYELOKATHEXIS SYNDROME;

AGAMMAGLOBULINEMIA; CHILD; CORD BLOOD STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; FEMALE; GENES, DOMINANT; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HETEROZYGOTE; HISTOCOMPATIBILITY; HUMANS; IMMUNOLOGIC DEFICIENCY SYNDROMES; INFECTION; LIVING DONORS; PEDIGREE; RECEPTORS, CXCR4; REMISSION INDUCTION; SIBLINGS; SYNDROME; WARTS;

EID: 76249098353     PISSN: 09024441     EISSN: 16000609     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0609.2009.01368.x     Document Type: Letter

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