A child with acute myeloblastic leukemia is scheduled to have a bone marrow transplant (BMT).The donor is the child's own umbilical cord blood that had been previously harvested and banked.This type of BMT is termed
A) autologous.
B) allogeneic.
C) syngeneic.
D) stem cell.

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In an autologous trAnswerplant,the child's own marrow or previously harvested and banked cord blood is used.In an allogeneic BMT,histocompatibility has been matched with a related or an unrelated donor.In a syngeneic trAnswerplant,the child receives bone marrow from an identical twin.A stem cell trAnswerplantation uses a unique immature cell present in the peripheral circulation.

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