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Original Article

The International Staging System for Multiple Myeloma is Applicable in Symptomatic Waldenstrom's Macroglobulinemia

Meletios A Dimopoulos Department of Clinical Therapeutics, University of Athens School of Medicine, AthensCorrespondence[email protected]
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Dimitra Gika Department of Hematology, Theagenion Cancer Hospital, Thessaloniki
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Konstantinos Zervas Department of Internal Medicine, University of Athens School of Medicine, Athens
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Marie C Kyrtsonis Department of Hematology, University of Patras, Patra
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Argyris Symeonidis Department of Hematology, University of Ioannina, Ioannina, Greece
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Athanasios Anagnostopoulos Department of Clinical Therapeutics, University of Athens School of Medicine, Athens
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Konstantinos Bourantas Department of Hematology, Theagenion Cancer Hospital, Thessaloniki
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Charis Matsouka Department of Internal Medicine, University of Athens School of Medicine, Athens
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Gerasimos A Pangalis Department of Hematology, University of Patras, Patra
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Pages 1809-1813 | Received 04 Mar 2004, Published online: 03 Aug 2009

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