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The prognostic importance of the presence of more than one focal lesion in spine MRI of patients with asymptomatic (smoldering) multiple myeloma

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  1. Department of Clinical Therapeutics, School of Medicine, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece

    E Kastritis, E Terpos & M A Dimopoulos

  2. 1st Department of Radiology, School of Medicine, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece

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Kastritis, E., Moulopoulos, L., Terpos, E. et al. The prognostic importance of the presence of more than one focal lesion in spine MRI of patients with asymptomatic (smoldering) multiple myeloma. Leukemia 28, 2402–2403 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1038/leu.2014.230

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