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Letter to the Editor

Rare manifestations of extramedullary myeloma: testicular plasmacytomas

Ioannis Ntanasis-StathopoulosDepartment of Clinical Therapeutics, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, School of Medicine, Alexandra General Hospital, Athens, Greece
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Maria GavriatopoulouDepartment of Clinical Therapeutics, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, School of Medicine, Alexandra General Hospital, Athens, GreeceCorrespondence[email protected]
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Evaggelos Eleftherakis-PapaiakovouDepartment of Clinical Therapeutics, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, School of Medicine, Alexandra General Hospital, Athens, Greece
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Efstathios KastritisDepartment of Clinical Therapeutics, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, School of Medicine, Alexandra General Hospital, Athens, Greece
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Evangelos TerposDepartment of Clinical Therapeutics, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, School of Medicine, Alexandra General Hospital, Athens, Greece
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Meletios-Athanasios DimopoulosDepartment of Clinical Therapeutics, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, School of Medicine, Alexandra General Hospital, Athens, Greece
Pages 2002-2004 | Received 14 Sep 2017, Accepted 19 Nov 2017, Published online: 07 Dec 2017

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