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Research Article

Remission Induction Using Alemtuzumab can Permit Chemotherapy-refractory Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia (CLL) Patients to Undergo Allogeneic Stem Cell Transplantation

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Pages 2455-2458 | Published online: 01 Jul 2009

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