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Successful control of steroid-intolerant Evans' syndrome associated with allogeneic peripheral blood hematopoietic stem cell transplant by rituximab

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Pages 528-530 | Received 15 Jul 2010, Accepted 05 Nov 2010, Published online: 28 Jan 2011

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