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Case Report

Prolonged remission of refractory lymphomatoid granulomatosisafter autologous hemopoietic stem cell transplantation with post-transplantation maintenance interferon

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Pages 323-328 | Received 06 Jul 2005, Published online: 01 Jul 2009

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