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Nine years interval between first and second bone marrow transplantations and subsequent long-term survival—a case of acute myeloid leukemia with MLL-AF6 fusion gene

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  1. Department of Hematology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Tsukuba, 1-1-1, Tennodai, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan

    Yasuhisa Yokoyama, Kazumi Suzukawa, Yasushi Okoshi, Naoshi Obara, Terukazu Enami, Yuichi Hasegawa & Shigeru Chiba

  2. Department of Laboratory Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan

    Kazumi Suzukawa

  3. Department of Clinical Laboratory, Tsukuba University Hospital, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan

    Toru Nanmoku

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Yokoyama, Y., Suzukawa, K., Okoshi, Y. et al. Nine years interval between first and second bone marrow transplantations and subsequent long-term survival—a case of acute myeloid leukemia with MLL-AF6 fusion gene. Ann Hematol 91, 1491–1493 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00277-012-1417-2

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