Biology of Blood and Marrow Transplantation
Volume 12, Issue 5 , Pages 541-551 , May 2006

Effect of Body Mass Index on Mortality of Patients with Lymphoma Undergoing Autologous Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation

  • Willis H. Navarro

      Affiliations

    • University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorrespondence and reprint requests: Willis H. Navarro, MD, Room 24516, MS 66, Genentech, Inc., 1 DNA Way, South San Francisco, CA 94080-4990
    • ,
  • Fausto R. Loberiza Jr

      Affiliations

    • University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, Nebraska
    • ,
  • Ruta Bajorunaite

      Affiliations

    • Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
    • ,
  • Koen van Besien

      Affiliations

    • University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
    • ,
  • Julie M. Vose

      Affiliations

    • University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, Nebraska
    • ,
  • Hillard M. Lazarus

      Affiliations

    • University Hospitals of Cleveland, Cleveland, Ohio
    • ,
  • J. Douglas Rizzo

      Affiliations

    • Center for International Blood and Marrow Transplant Research, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Received 28 September 2005 ,Accepted 11 December 2005.

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doi: 10.1016/j.bbmt.2005.12.033

Biology of Blood and Marrow Transplantation
Volume 12, Issue 5 , Pages 541-551 , May 2006

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