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Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplant in Elderly Patients: Experience from a Tertiary Care Centre in Northern India

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Acknowledgments

We are thankful to Ms. Bharti for compiling the data and our coordinators Mr Sanjiv Kumar and Ms Kamna Puri for maintaining the followup record of the patients.

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  1. Department of Hemato-Oncology and Bone Marrow Transplantation, BLK Superspeciality Hospital, New Delhi, 110005, India

    Sanjeev Kumar Sharma, Dharma Choudhary, Esha Kaul, Gaurav Kharya, Vipin Khandelwal, Sweta Kothari, Divya Doval, Anil Handoo, Rasika Setia, Tina Dadu & Kirti Pessi

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Sharma, S.K., Choudhary, D., Kaul, E. et al. Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplant in Elderly Patients: Experience from a Tertiary Care Centre in Northern India. Indian J Hematol Blood Transfus 32 (Suppl 1), 205–207 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12288-015-0624-0

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