Umbilical cord blood collection with an infant feeding tube.
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Placental vessels contain a quarter to a third of cord blood at birth(2) which is now being used for stem cell transfusions in Fanconi's anemia, leukemia, thalassemia major, sickle cell anemia and aplastic anemia. The first premature infant who received autologous cord blood transfusion was reported by Ballin et al.{2). We report an indigenously developed cord blood collection technique which could have wide applications.
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- Indian pediatrics
دوره 35 4 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 1998