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Letter to the Editor

Prolonged remission of adult T-cell leukemia/lymphoma treated with interferon-γ following autologous peripheral blood stem cell transplantation

Eiji Ohno Department of Hematology, Almeida Memorial Hospital, Oita, JapanCorrespondence[email protected]
,
Keiji Ono Department of Hematology, Almeida Memorial Hospital, Oita, Japan
,
Hiroshi Kikuchi Second Department of Internal Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Oita University, Oita, Japan
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Yoshio Saburi Second Department of Internal Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Oita University, Oita, Japan
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Atae Utsunomiya Department of Hematology, Imamura Bun-in Hospital, Kagoshima, Japan
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Masaru Nasu Second Department of Internal Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Oita University, Oita, Japan
Pages 1843-1845 | Received 14 Jun 2005, Published online: 01 Jul 2009

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