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Letter

De novo B lymphoblastic leukemia/lymphoma in an adult with t(14;18)(q32;q21) and c-MYC gene rearrangement involving 10p13

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Pages 2195-2199 | Received 17 Feb 2011, Accepted 15 May 2011, Published online: 30 Jun 2011

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