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Letter

Kaposi sarcoma after non-myeloablative hematopoietic stem cell transplant: response to withdrawal of immunosuppressant therapy correlated with whole blood human herpesvirus-8 reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction levels

Delva Deauna-LimayoUniversity of California San Diego Nevada Cancer Institute, Las Vegas, NV, USACorrespondence[email protected]
,
Babak RajabiUniversity of Nevada School of Medicine/UCSD Nevada Cancer Institute, Las Vegas, NV, USA
,
Wansong QiuAssociated Pathologists Chartered, Las Vegas, NV, USA
,
Myo HtutCity of Hope Comprehensive Cancer Center, Duarte, CA, USA
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John SweetenhamUniversity of California San Diego Nevada Cancer Institute, Las Vegas, NV, USA
Pages 2299-2302 | Received 29 Nov 2012, Accepted 19 Jan 2013, Published online: 15 May 2013

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