Case Reports in Transplantation
Volume 2016 (2016), Article ID 1717426, 9 pages
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2016/1717426
Case Report
First Autologous Cord Blood Therapy for Pediatric Ischemic Stroke and Cerebral Palsy Caused by Cephalic Molding during Birth: Individual Treatment with Mononuclear Cells
1Campus Clinic Gynecology, Ruhr-University Bochum, Universitätsstrasse 140, 44799 Bochum, Germany
2Department of Pediatrics, Ruhr-University Bochum, St. Josef-Hospital, Alexandrinenstrasse 5, 44791 Bochum, Germany
3Department of Pediatrics, Evangelisches Krankenhaus Bielefeld, Kinderzentrum Bethel, Grenzweg 10, 33617 Bielefeld, Germany
Received 2 March 2016; Accepted 12 April 2016
Academic Editor: Janez Jazbec
Copyright © 2016 A. Jensen and E. Hamelmann. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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