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Concomitant multiple sclerosis and polycythemia vera successfully treated with glatiramer acetate

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  1. Department of Internal Medicine, General Hospital of Šibenik-Knin County, Stjepana Radića 83, Šibenik, Croatia

    Ivan Krečak

  2. School of Medicine, University of Rijeka, Rijeka, Croatia

    Ivan Krečak

  3. Department of Neurology, General Hospital of Šibenik-Knin County, Šibenik, Croatia

    Sandra Celić-Bunikić

  4. Pharmacy Department, General Hospital of Šibenik-Knin County, Šibenik, Croatia

    Marko Skelin

  5. Department of Basic and Clinical Pharmacology With Toxicology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Rijeka, Rijeka, Croatia

    Marko Skelin

  6. Division of Hematology, University Hospital Dubrava, Zagreb, Croatia

    Marko Lucijanić & Rajko Kušec

  7. School of Medicine, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia

    Marko Lucijanić & Rajko Kušec

  8. Department of Leukemia, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA

    Srdan Verstovsek

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Krečak, I., Celić-Bunikić, S., Skelin, M. et al. Concomitant multiple sclerosis and polycythemia vera successfully treated with glatiramer acetate. Ann Hematol 101, 1885–1886 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00277-022-04839-2

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