| experiences of the dresdner cord blood bank, supported by the deutsche knochenmarkspenderdatei. | allogeneic bone marrow and peripheral blood stem cell transplantation is the treatment of choice for some malignant hematologic diseases, marrow failure syndromes, and severe congenital immunodeficiency states. since gluckman et al reported in 1988 the first successful human leukocyte antigen (hla)-matched sibling umbilical cord blood stem cell transplantation, it has been known that cord blood is a valuable source of hematopoietic stem cells. the cord blood bank at the university hospital of dr ... | 1999 | 10632481 |