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Letter to the Editor

Hepatitis B virus reactivation induced by Yttrium-90-ibritumomab-tiuxetan

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Pages 1866-1868 | Received 07 Jun 2007, Accepted 12 Jun 2007, Published online: 01 Jul 2009

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