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Letter

Successful treatment of first and second recurrence of acute lymphoblastic leukemia after related allogeneic bone marrow transplant at unusual sites using single-dose vincristine followed by interferon-α2b and granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor

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Pages 1107-1109 | Received 27 Jul 2012, Accepted 22 Sep 2012, Published online: 16 Oct 2012

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