Biology of Blood and Marrow Transplantation
Volume 12, Issue 6 , Pages 672-682 , June 2006

Acute Radiation Injury: Contingency Planning for Triage, Supportive Care, and Transplantation

Presented in part at a workshop held at the Tandem BMT Meetings; Keystone, Colorado; February 2005.

  • Daniel Weisdorf

      Affiliations

    • University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorrespondence and reprint requests: Daniel Weisdorf, MD, Department of Medicine, University of Minnesota, 420 Delaware Street, SE, MMC, 480, Minneapolis, MN 55455
    • ,
  • Nelson Chao

      Affiliations

    • Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina
    • ,
  • Jamie K. Waselenko

      Affiliations

    • Sarah Cannon Research Institute, Nashville, Tennessee
    • ,
  • Nicholas Dainiak

      Affiliations

    • Department of Medicine, Bridgeport Hospital and Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut
    • ,
  • James O. Armitage

      Affiliations

    • Division of Hematology/Oncology, University of Nebraska, Omaha, Nebraska
    • ,
  • Ian McNiece

      Affiliations

    • Division of Biomedical Sciences John Hopkins Singapore, Singapore, Singapore
    • ,
  • Dennis Confer

      Affiliations

    • National Marrow Donor Program, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Received 4 January 2006 ,Accepted 7 February 2006.

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PII: S1083-8791(06)00162-5

doi: 10.1016/j.bbmt.2006.02.006

Biology of Blood and Marrow Transplantation
Volume 12, Issue 6 , Pages 672-682 , June 2006

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