The role for BMT in erythropoietic protoporphyria

Bone Marrow Transplantation

Volumn 45, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 393-394

  Wahlin, S ^a   Harper, P ^a  

^a KAROLINSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FERROCHELATASE; PROTOPORPHYRIN;

ERYTHROPOIETIC PROTOPORPHYRIA; GENE MUTATION; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; HETEROZYGOSITY; HUMAN; INTRAHEPATIC CHOLESTASIS; LETTER; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER DISEASE; LIVER FAILURE; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; PHOTOSENSITIVITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREATMENT INDICATION;

AGED; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; HUMANS; LIVER FAILURE; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MIDDLE AGED; PHOTOSENSITIVITY DISORDERS; PROTOPORPHYRIA, ERYTHROPOIETIC;

EID: 76749151396     PISSN: 02683369     EISSN: 14765365     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/bmt.2009.132     Document Type: Letter

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