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Original Articles: Clinical

Histiocytic sarcoma arising in indolent small B-cell lymphoma: report of two cases with molecular/genetic evidence suggestive of a ‘transdifferentiation’ during the clonal evolution

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Pages 802-812 | Received 04 Nov 2009, Accepted 13 Feb 2010, Published online: 23 Mar 2010

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