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Stepensky, P., Revel-Vilk, S., Weintraub, M. et al. Combination of umbilical cord blood with BM from a 2-month-old sibling as lifesaving BMT for very severe aplastic anemia. Bone Marrow Transplant 42, 563–564 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1038/bmt.2008.213
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