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Simultaneous transplantation of two allogeneic units of cord blood in an adult patient with acute myeloblastic leukemia: a case report.
Archivum immunologiae et therapiae experimentalis - 1 Jan 2000
Wiktor-Jedrzejczyk Wiesław, Rokicka Małgorzata, Urbanowska Elzbieta, Torosian Tigran, Graczyk-Pol Elzbieta, Tomaszewska Agnieszka, Król Małgorzata, Paluszewska Monika, Gronkowska Anna, Ziarkiewicz-Wróblewska Bogna, Jółkowska Justyna, Witt Michał
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INTRODUCTION: The major obstacle to the therapeutic use of hematopoietic transplantation is the unavailability of matched, unrelated marrow donors for the large number of potential patients, although all of them have the chance to find sufficiently matched, unrelated cord blood units. However, the use of cord blood as a source of cells for transplantation is limited by its cell number, usually below 1 billion,...
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