Best Practice & Research Clinical Haematology
Volume 19, Issue 2 , Pages 321-328 , June 2006

Are matched unrelated donor transplants justified for AML in CR1?

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doi: 10.1016/j.beha.2005.12.002

Best Practice & Research Clinical Haematology
Volume 19, Issue 2 , Pages 321-328 , June 2006