A new donor system for the patients with thalassemia: "blood mother and blood father"

Asian Journal of Transfusion Science

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 109-111

  Canatan, Duran ^a   Özsancak, Ahmet ^b  

^a SULEYMAN DEMIREL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b Antalya State Hospital   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Donors; thalassemia

Indexed keywords

EID: 84871776832     PISSN: 09736247     EISSN: 19983565     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4103/0973-6247.67036     Document Type: Article

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