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Cytogenetically cryptic and fish negative PML/RARA rearrangement in acute promyelocytic leukemia detected by RT-PCR

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Pages 3526-3528 | Received 07 Apr 2020, Accepted 02 Aug 2020, Published online: 10 Sep 2020

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