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A 19-year-old man with acute lymphoblastic leukemia in second remission had a bone marrow transplant from an unrelated donor. He went on to develop extensive chronic GVHD and aspergillosis of the lung and brain. Cerebral aspergilloma was excised 9 months after the transplant.
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Mijovic, A. (2012). Breathless. In: Transfusion Medicine. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-2182-4_10
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