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Umbilical Cord Blood (UCB) Transplantation: An Alternative to the Use of Unrelated Volunteer Donors?
1 Jan 2007
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Cryopreserved umbilical cord blood (UCB) from 4-6/6 HLA-A,B antigen and DRB1 allele matched unrelated neonatal donors contains sufficient numbers of hematopoietic stem cells (HSC) to engraft most younger pediatric patients with leukemia. Recent data demonstrate promising results in larger children and adults, as well as in patients with nonmalignant disorders. As a result, the number of UCB transplantations...
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