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Case Reports

A Curious Case of Morphologically Deceptive Pediatric B-Lymphoblastic Leukemia with Granular “Blebbed” Blasts and DLBCL-Like Biopsy Findings

Sunita SharmaDepartment of Pathology, Lady Hardinge Medical College and Kalawati Saran Children’s Hospital, Shaheed Bhagat Singh Marg, New Delhi, Delhi, India
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Kavita GaurDepartment of Pathology, Lady Hardinge Medical College and Kalawati Saran Children’s Hospital, Shaheed Bhagat Singh Marg, New Delhi, Delhi, India
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Tatton PermeDepartment of Pathology, Lady Hardinge Medical College and Kalawati Saran Children’s Hospital, Shaheed Bhagat Singh Marg, New Delhi, Delhi, India
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Amrita SinghDepartment of Pathology, Lady Hardinge Medical College and Kalawati Saran Children’s Hospital, Shaheed Bhagat Singh Marg, New Delhi, Delhi, India
Pages 98-102 | Received 27 Jan 2022, Accepted 02 Mar 2022, Published online: 14 Mar 2022

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