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Fludarabine based treatment caused improvement of anemia in a patient with T-cell LGL leukemia despite evidence of the persistence of the abnormal T-cell clone

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Pages 2006-2008 | Received 31 May 2008, Accepted 13 Jun 2008, Published online: 01 Jul 2009

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