Giuseppe Roberto Burgio
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Italian paediatrician, born April 30, 1919, Palermo, Sicily.
Biography of Giuseppe Roberto Burgio
Burgio is (2004) professor emeritus of paediatrics, University of Pavia.
We thank Andre Trombeta and Grace E. Jacobs for information submitted.
Bibliography
- Giuseppe Roberto Burgio, Eliane Gluckman, Franco Locatelli:
Ethical reappraisal of 15 years of cord-blood transplantation.
The Lancet, January 18, 2003, 361 (Number 9353): 250-252.
- Franco Locatelli, Giuseppe Roberto Burgio:
Transplant of hematopoietic stem cells in childhood: where we are and where we are going.
Haematologica, Roma, 1998, 83: 550-563.
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