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Letter to the Editor

Second hematologic malignancies in hairy cell leukemia: report of two patients with dynamic mutations in the BRAF gene

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Pages 823-825 | Received 17 Apr 2014, Accepted 25 Jun 2014, Published online: 20 Aug 2014

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