Biology of Blood and Marrow Transplantation
Volume 15, Issue 4 , Pages 490-495 , April 2009

Clinical Utility of Computed Tomography Screening of Chest, Abdomen, and Sinuses before Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation: The St. Jude Experience

  • Kimberly A. Kasow

      Affiliations

    • Division of Bone Marrow Transplantation & Cellular Therapy, Department of Oncology, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorrespondence and reprint requests: Kimberly A. Kasow, DO, Division of Bone Marrow Transplantation & Cellular Therapy, Department of Oncology, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, 262 Danny Thomas Place, MS 260, Memphis, TN 38105.
    • ,
  • Jennifer Krueger

      Affiliations

    • Division of Bone Marrow Transplantation & Cellular Therapy, Department of Oncology, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee
    • ,
  • Deo Kumar Srivastava

      Affiliations

    • Department of Biostatistics, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee
    • ,
  • Chenghong Li

      Affiliations

    • Department of Biostatistics, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee
    • ,
  • Raymond Barfield

      Affiliations

    • Division of Bone Marrow Transplantation & Cellular Therapy, Department of Oncology, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee
    • ,
  • Wing Leung

      Affiliations

    • Division of Bone Marrow Transplantation & Cellular Therapy, Department of Oncology, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee
    • ,
  • Edwin M. Horwitz

      Affiliations

    • Division of Bone Marrow Transplantation & Cellular Therapy, Department of Oncology, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee
    • ,
  • Renee Madden

      Affiliations

    • Division of Bone Marrow Transplantation & Cellular Therapy, Department of Oncology, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee
    • ,
  • Paul Woodard

      Affiliations

    • Division of Bone Marrow Transplantation & Cellular Therapy, Department of Oncology, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee
    • ,
  • Ishtiaq Hussain

      Affiliations

    • Department of Radiological Sciences, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee
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  • M. Beth McCarville

      Affiliations

    • Department of Radiological Sciences, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee
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  • Rupert Handgretinger

      Affiliations

    • Division of Bone Marrow Transplantation & Cellular Therapy, Department of Oncology, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee
    • ,
  • Gregory A. Hale

      Affiliations

    • Division of Bone Marrow Transplantation & Cellular Therapy, Department of Oncology, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee

Received 30 May 2008 ,Accepted 23 November 2008.

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 Financial disclosure: See Acknowledgments on page 495.

PII: S1083-8791(08)00583-1

doi: 10.1016/j.bbmt.2008.11.033

Biology of Blood and Marrow Transplantation
Volume 15, Issue 4 , Pages 490-495 , April 2009

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