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Macrofocal multiple myeloma in young patients: A distinct entity with favorable prognosis

Meletios Athanasios Dimopoulos Department of Clinical Therapeutics, University of Athens School of Medicine, Athens, GreeceCorrespondence[email protected]
, MD,
Anastasia Pouli Department of Hematology Agios Savvas Cancer Center, Greece
,
Athanasios Anagnostopoulos Department of Clinical Therapeutics, University of Athens School of Medicine, Athens, Greece
,
Panagiotis Repoussis Department of Hematology Metaxa Hospital Athens, Greece
,
Argyris Symeonidis Department of Hematology, University of Patra School of Medicine, Greece
,
Evangelos Terpos Department of Hematology General Airforce Hospital, Greece
,
Sosana Delimbasi Department of Hematology Evangelismos Hospital Athens, Greece
,
Friderikos Tsolakis Department of Hematology Nicosia Hospital Cyprus, Greece
,
Theophanis Economopoulos Second Department of Propedeutic Medicine, University of Athens School of Medicine, Greece
&
Constantinos Zervas Department of Hematology Theagenion Cancer Center Thessaloniki, Greece
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Pages 1553-1556 | Received 10 Jan 2006, Accepted 15 Feb 2006, Published online: 01 Jul 2009

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