Mislabeled units of umbilical cord blood detected by a quality assurance program at the transplantation center.

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Mislabeled units of umbilical cord blood detected by a quality assurance program at the transplantation center.

October 14, 2009

McCullough J, McKenna D, Kadidlo D, et al. Blood. 2009;114(8):1684-8.

This article describes the process used to detect mismatched umbilical cord blood prior to transplantation. Failure to detect the mismatches would have led to devastating clinical consequences.

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