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Letter to the Editor

A case of benign natural killer cell proliferative disorder of the stomach (gastric manifestation of natural killer cell lymphomatoid gastroenteropathy) mimicking extranodal natural killer/T-cell lymphoma

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Pages 1803-1805 | Received 02 Dec 2010, Accepted 15 Mar 2011, Published online: 08 Jun 2011

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