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Letter

Successful disease control with l-asparaginase monotherapy for aggressive natural killer cell leukemia with severe hepatic failure

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Pages 662-664 | Received 06 Jun 2012, Accepted 06 Aug 2012, Published online: 03 Sep 2012

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