Fetal, Neonatal and Childhood Transfusions

Practical Transfusion Medicine

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 347-367

  Roberts, Irene ^a   Luban, Naomi ^b   New, Helen V ^c  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

^c NHS BLOOD AND TRANSPLANT   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Exchange transfusion; Fetal and neonatal thrombocytopenia; Haemolytic disease of the newborn; Neonatal transfusion

Indexed keywords

EID: 84886537666     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781118520093.ch32     Document Type: Chapter

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