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Letters to the Editor

MLL-rearranged mixed phenotype acute leukemia masquerading as B-cell ALL

Wei YangDepartment of Medicine, University of California Irvine, Orange, CA, USA;
,
Phu TranDivision of Hematology-Oncology, University of California Irvine, Orange, CA, USA;
,
Ziad KhanDivision of Hematology-Oncology, University of California Irvine, Orange, CA, USA;
,
Sherif RezkDepartment of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of California Irvine, Orange, CA, USA
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Susan O’BrienDivision of Hematology-Oncology, University of California Irvine, Orange, CA, USA; Correspondence[email protected]
Pages 1498-1501 | Received 24 Aug 2016, Accepted 03 Oct 2016, Published online: 24 Oct 2016

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