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Clinical usefulness of fluorescence in situ hybridization for detection of MLL rearrangements in acute myeloid leukemia

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Pages 2706-2708 | Received 17 Jul 2014, Accepted 21 Dec 2014, Published online: 20 Feb 2015

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