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Letter to the Editor

An unusual case of a lymphoblastic lymphoma with initial bilateral breast lesions but with c-myc and bcl-2 rearrangements

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Pages 415-417 | Received 10 Nov 2006, Accepted 10 Nov 2006, Published online: 01 Jul 2009

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