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Letter to the Editor

Use of arsenic trioxide in secondary acute promyelocytic leukemia developing after treatment of multiple sclerosis with mitoxantrone

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Pages 1217-1218 | Received 13 Feb 2009, Accepted 17 Mar 2009, Published online: 21 Jul 2009

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