Low usage rate of banked sibling cord blood units in hematopoietic stem cell transplantation for children with hematological malignancies: Implications for directed cord blood banking policies

Blood Cells, Molecules, and Diseases

Volumn 46, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 177-181

  Goussetis, Evgenios ^a   Peristeri, Ioulia ^a   Kitra, Vasiliki ^a   Papassavas, Andreas C ^b   Theodosaki, Maria ^a   Petrakou, Eftichia ^a   Spiropoulos, Antonia ^a   Paisiou, Anna ^a   Soldatou, Alexandra ^a   Stavropoulos Giokas, Catherine ^b   Graphakos, Stelios ^a  

^a AGHIA SOPHIA CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Greece)

^b BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION   (Greece)

Author keywords

Directed cord blood banking; Hematological malignancies

Indexed keywords

ACICLOVIR; BUSULFAN; CIPROFLOXACIN; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; CYCLOSPORIN; ETOPOSIDE; FLUCONAZOLE; HLA ANTIGEN; METHOTREXATE; PENTAMIDINE;

ACUTE LYMPHOBLASTIC LEUKEMIA; ACUTE MYELOBLASTIC LEUKEMIA; ARTICLE; BLOOD BANK; BLOOD STORAGE; CANCER REGRESSION; CELL COUNT; CHILD; CHRONIC MYELOID LEUKEMIA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CORD BLOOD STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; ENGRAFTMENT; FAMILY STUDY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GRAFT INFECTION; GRAFT REJECTION; GRAFT VERSUS HOST REACTION; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH PROGRAM; HEMATOLOGIC MALIGNANCY; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; HLA MATCHING; HUMAN; MALE; NONHODGKIN LYMPHOMA; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; SIBLING; UMBILICAL CORD BLOOD;

BLOOD BANKS; CHILD; CORD BLOOD STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; FAMILY; FEMALE; FETAL BLOOD; FETUS; GREECE; HEMATOLOGIC NEOPLASMS; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; HISTOCOMPATIBILITY; HLA ANTIGENS; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; PREGNANCY; SIBLINGS; TISSUE DONORS;

EID: 79151476817     PISSN: 10799796     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bcmd.2010.10.017     Document Type: Article

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