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Letter

Prominent hematogone hyperplasia in BCR–ABL1-positive chronic myelogenous leukemia: mimicking recurrent B-lymphoid blast crisis

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Pages 1952-1954 | Received 24 Sep 2013, Accepted 19 Nov 2013, Published online: 06 Feb 2014

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