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Central nervous system infiltration of a multiple cytokine-producing double-hit B-cell lymphoma, unclassifiable, with features intermediate between diffuse large B-cell lymphoma and Burkitt lymphoma with CC chemokine receptor 7 expression

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Pages 1217-1220 | Received 11 Aug 2012, Accepted 14 Oct 2012, Published online: 04 Dec 2012

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