Platelets-to transfuse or not to transfuse

The Lancet

Volumn 380, Issue 9850, 2012, Pages 1287-1289

  Blumberg, Neil ^a   Heal, Joanna M ^a   Phillips, Gordon L ^a   Phipps, Richard P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT;

ACUTE GRANULOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; ACUTE LUNG INJURY; APHERESIS; AUTOLOGOUS STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; BACTERIUM CONTAMINATION; BLEEDING; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; DISEASE SEVERITY; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HEMATOLOGIC MALIGNANCY; HUMAN; LIVER BIOPSY; MEDICAL HISTORY; MYELOABLATIVE CHEMOTHE_IB MYELOABLATIVE CONDITIONING; NOTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THROMBOCYTE TRANSFUSION; THROMBOCYTOPOIESIS; VIRUS TRANSMISSION;

EID: 84867337915     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: 1474547X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(12)60983-0     Document Type: Note

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