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Original Article

Age influences post-graft-versus-host disease non-relapse mortality in adults with acute graft-versus-host disease of varying severity following allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplant

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Pages 2392-2397 | Received 21 Sep 2014, Accepted 11 Jan 2015, Published online: 09 Feb 2015

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