A case of therapy-related extramedullary acute promyelocytic leukemia
β Scribed by Zhong Chen; Hassan S. Mostafavi; Daniel H. Shevrin; Rodman Morgan; Malcolm V. Vye; John F. Stone; Avery A. Sandberg
- Book ID
- 113253619
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1996
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 244 KB
- Volume
- 86
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0165-4608
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