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Simultaneous acute myeloid leukemia and mesothelioma diagnoses in a long-term survivor of the 1984 Bhopal gas leak

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Pages 984-988 | Received 09 Nov 2013, Accepted 17 Dec 2013, Published online: 23 Jan 2014

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