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Degenerated mitochondria in leukemic blast appeared as granules on May-Grunwald-Giemsa staining

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  1. Department of Hematology and Oncology, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-Ku, Tokyo, 113-8655, Japan

    Hirofumi Takano, Megumi Yasunaga, Yosuke Masamoto & Mineo Kurokawa

  2. Department of Electron Microscope, BML Research Institute Inc, 1361-1 Matoba, Kawagoe-shi, Saitama, 350-1101, Japan

    Ieharu Yamazaki

  3. Department of Clinical Laboratory, The University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-Ku, Tokyo, 113-8655, Japan

    Masako Nishikawa & Yutaka Yatomi

  4. Department of Pathology, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-Ku, Tokyo, 113-8655, Japan

    Aya Shinozaki-Ushiku

  5. Department of Pathology, Japanese Red Cross Narita Hospital, 90-1 Iida-Cho, Narita-shi, Chiba, 286-8523, Japan

    Makio Kawakami

  6. Department of Cell Therapy and Transplantation Medicine, The University of Tokyo Hospital, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-Ku, Tokyo, 113-8655, Japan

    Mineo Kurokawa

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Takano, H., Yasunaga, M., Yamazaki, I. et al. Degenerated mitochondria in leukemic blast appeared as granules on May-Grunwald-Giemsa staining. Ann Hematol 101, 1135–1136 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00277-021-04684-9

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