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Letter to the Editor

Complete remission of immunochemotherapy-refractory monomorphic post-transplant lymphoproliferative disorder mediated by endogenous T-cell recovery

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Pages 2075-2078 | Received 26 Nov 2018, Accepted 10 Jan 2019, Published online: 05 Feb 2019

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