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Complete remission and virologic response to combined chemoimmunotherapy (R-CVP) followed by rituximab maintenance in HIV-negative, HHV-8 positive patient with multicentric Castleman disease

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Pages 2224-2226 | Received 04 Jul 2008, Accepted 04 Aug 2008, Published online: 01 Jul 2009

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