Is Filgrastim as Useless After Peripheral Blood Stem Cell Transplantation for Adults as It Could Be for Children?

Abstract

To the Editor: We read with interest the report by Kawano et al[1][1]concerning the use of granulocyte colony-stimulating factor (G-CSF) after peripheral blood stem cell transplantation (PBSC) in pediatric patients. The main conclusions of this study are that filgrastim does not provide a marked