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Research Article

Evaluation of a panel of expert pathologists: review of the diagnosis and histological classification of Hodgkin and non-Hodgkin lymphomas in a population-based cancer registry

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Pages 1018-1022 | Received 03 May 2013, Accepted 16 Jul 2013, Published online: 10 Sep 2013

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