Letter to the Editor: Does the Philadelphia Chromosome Exclude the Diagnosis of Essential Thrombocythaemia?
Response: Philadelphia chromosome excludes the diagnosis of essential thrombocythemia
β Scribed by Ravindra Sarode; Neelam Marwaha
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1990
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 69 KB
- Volume
- 35
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0361-8609
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