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Letter

Acute lymphoblastic leukemia developing during maintenance therapy with lenalidomide in a patient with multiple myeloma

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Pages 2753-2755 | Received 29 Oct 2012, Accepted 11 Mar 2013, Published online: 15 Mar 2013

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