Survival advantage of using autologous blood transfusion during surgery for esophageal cancer.
This interesting article raises once again the issue of whether or not allogeneic transfusion can hasten the relapse of cancer and shorten overall survival. There... Read More
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Persons with early syphilis identified through blood or plasma donation screening in the United States.
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Intraoperative cell salvage in radical retropubic prostatectomy.
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Amplification of the DNA polymerase I gene of Treponema pallidum from whole blood of persons with syphilis.
Marfin AA, Liu H, Sutton MY, Steiner B, Pillay A, Markowitz LE
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Review by Kretschmer V.
Liver resections with or without pedicle clamping.
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Review by Richard K. Spence