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Detection of hemophagocytic extremely multinucleated giant plasma cells after rituximab/low-dose lenalidomide treatment in CD20+ multiple myeloma

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Pages 2331-2333 | Received 28 Oct 2018, Accepted 08 Jan 2019, Published online: 05 Feb 2019

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