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Original Article: Clinical

Multiple myeloma in patients up to 30 years of age: a multicenter retrospective study of 52 cases

Artur Jurczyszyna Department of Hematology, Jagiellonian University Medical College, Cracow, Poland; Correspondence[email protected]
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Julio Davilab Department of Hematology, Hospital Universitario de Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain;
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K. Martin Kortümc Department of Internal Medicine II, University Hospital Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany;
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David S. Jayabaland Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, NY, USA;
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Ravi Vije Washington University School of Medicine, Saint Louis, MO, USA;
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Mark Fialae Washington University School of Medicine, Saint Louis, MO, USA;
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Vibor Milunovicf Division of Hematology, Clinical Hospital Merkur, Zagreb, Croatia;
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C.S. Chimg Queen Mary Hospital, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong;
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Katarzyna Wiśniewska-Piątyh School of Medicine in Katowice Department of Hematology and Bone Marrow Transplantation, Silesian Medical University, Katowice, Poland;
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Anna Waszczuk-Gajdai Department of Hematology Oncology and Internal Medicine, Warsaw Medical University, Warsaw, Poland; ORCID Iconhttps://orcid.org/0000-0001-5626-1750
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Edvan Crusoej Hospital Universitario Professor Edgar Santos, Salvador, Brazil;
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Roman Hajekk Department of Hematooncology University Hospital Ostrava and Faculty of Medicine University of Ostrava, Ostrava, Czech Republic;
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Paweł Robakl Department of Hematology, Medical University of Lodz, Memorial, Hospital Lodz, Poland Copernicus;
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Małgorzata Raźnym Department of Hematology, State Hospital, Cracow, Poland;
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Daria Zawirskan Faculty of Medicine, Jagiellonian University Medical College, Cracow, Poland;
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Max Bittrichc Department of Internal Medicine II, University Hospital Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany;
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Hareth Nahio Haematology Centre Karolinska, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden;
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Jieqi Liup Rutgers New Jersey Medical School, Newark, NJ, USA;
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Jorge J. Castilloq Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA; ORCID Iconhttps://orcid.org/0000-0001-9490-7532
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David H. Vesoler John Theurer Cancer Center Hackensack University Medical Center, Hackensack, NJ, USAORCID Iconhttps://orcid.org/0000-0001-7711-4127
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Pages 471-476 | Received 03 Jan 2018, Accepted 08 May 2018, Published online: 22 Jul 2018

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