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Umbilical cord blood transplant in hepatitis C-associated severe aplastic anemia

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Lim, S., Zhang, Y., Wang, Z. et al. Umbilical cord blood transplant in hepatitis C-associated severe aplastic anemia. Bone Marrow Transplant 33, 565–567 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1038/sj.bmt.1704390

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