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Cutaneous presentation of an aggressive plasmablastic neoplasm indiscriminate between lymphoma and myeloma

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  1. Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, London, UK

    Alice C. Johnston, Kikkeri Naresh & Tara Barwick

  2. Centre for Haematology, Hammersmith Hospital Campus, Imperial College London, Du Cane Road, London, W12 0HS, UK

    Philippa May, Anastasios Karadimitris & Holger W. Auner

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Supplementary Figure 1

CT-PET scan of a representative PET-positive lesion in the cervical spine that is not osteolytic as shown by the CT component of the scan. (JPEG 68 kb)

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Johnston, A.C., Naresh, K., Barwick, T. et al. Cutaneous presentation of an aggressive plasmablastic neoplasm indiscriminate between lymphoma and myeloma. Ann Hematol 94, 691–692 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00277-014-2226-6

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