How Croatian patients suffering from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis have been turned into medical tourists - A comment on a medical and social phenomenon

Croatian Medical Journal

Volumn 55, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 443-445

  Mitrečić, Dinko ^a   Bilić, Ervina ^a   Gajović, Srećko ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZAGREB   (Croatia)

^b Croatian Medical Journal   (Croatia)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; BONE MARROW CELL; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL THERAPY; CROATIA; CROATIAN (CITIZEN); DEGENERATIVE DISEASE; EDITORIAL; HUMAN; MEDICAL CARE; MEDICAL EXPERT; MEDICAL PRACTICE; MEDICAL TOURISM; MOTONEURON; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; COMPLICATION; ETHICS; MEDICAL ETHICS; PERCEPTION;

AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; CROATIA; ETHICS, MEDICAL; HUMANS; MEDICAL TOURISM; SOCIAL PERCEPTION; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION;

EID: 84920154836     PISSN: 03539504     EISSN: 13328166     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3325/cmj.2014.55.443     Document Type: Editorial

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