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Marked increase of normal blast morphologically mimicking leukemic clone in acute lymphoblastic leukemia patient following G-CSF therapy

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  1. Division of Hematology, Department of Internal Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Kagawa University, 1750-1 Ikenobe, Miki-cho, Kita-gun, Kagawa, 761-0793, Japan

    Osamu Imataki & Hiroaki Ohnishi

  2. Department of Laboratory Medicine, Kagawa University Hospital, Kagawa, Japan

    Genji Yamaoka & Takeshi Arai

  3. Department of Laboratory Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Kagawa University, Kagawa, Japan

    Akira Kitanaka

  4. Department of Transfusion Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Kagawa University, Kagawa, Japan

    Yoshitsugu Kubota

  5. Department of Internal Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Kagawa University, Kagawa, Japan

    Toshihiko Ishida

  6. Environmental Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Kagawa University, Kagawa, Japan

    Terukazu Tanaka

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Imataki, O., Ohnishi, H., Yamaoka, G. et al. Marked increase of normal blast morphologically mimicking leukemic clone in acute lymphoblastic leukemia patient following G-CSF therapy. Int J Hematol 88, 468–470 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12185-008-0178-0

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