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Case Report

Congenital MLL-positive B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia (B-ALL) switched lineage at relapse to acute myelocytic leukemia (AML) with persistent t(4;11) and t(1;6) translocations and JH gene rearrangement

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Pages 1223-1227 | Received 05 Feb 2005, Published online: 03 Aug 2009

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