Chronic Graft-versus-Host Disease-Implementation of the National Institutes of Health Consensus Criteria for Clinical Trials

Linda M. Griffith; Steven Z. Pavletic; Stephanie J. Lee; Paul J. Martin; Kirk R. Schultz; Georgia B. Vogelsang

doi:10.1016/j.bbmt.2008.01.005

Chronic Graft-versus-Host Disease-Implementation of the National Institutes of Health Consensus Criteria for Clinical Trials

Linda M. Griffith, Steven Z. Pavletic, Stephanie J. Lee, Paul J. Martin, Kirk R. Schultz, Georgia B. Vogelsang

School of Medicine

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Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	379-384
Number of pages	6
Journal	Biology of Blood and Marrow Transplantation
Volume	14
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bbmt.2008.01.005
State	Published - Apr 2008

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Transplantation

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Chronic Graft-versus-Host Disease-Implementation of the National Institutes of Health Consensus Criteria for Clinical Trials. / Griffith, Linda M.; Pavletic, Steven Z.; Lee, Stephanie J.; Martin, Paul J.; Schultz, Kirk R.; Vogelsang, Georgia B.

In: Biology of Blood and Marrow Transplantation, Vol. 14, No. 4, 04.2008, p. 379-384.

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