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Intravesical Bacillus Calmette-Guérin for the treatment of superficial bladder cancer following hematopoietic stem cell transplantation

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Pages 1627-1629 | Received 03 Apr 2008, Accepted 15 Apr 2008, Published online: 01 Jul 2009

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