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Late onset of EBV-driven PTLD/Burkitt lymphoma/leukemia in a patient 10 years after allogeneic stem cell transplant for AML

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  1. Department of Pathology, City of Hope, Duarte, CA, USA

    Q Huang, Y Lu & M L Slovak

  2. Department of Hematology and Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation, City of Hope, Duarte, CA, USA

    L Popplewell & S J Forman

  3. Department of Hematology, Ningbo #1 Hospital, Ningbo, PR China

    Y Lu

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Huang, Q., Popplewell, L., Lu, Y. et al. Late onset of EBV-driven PTLD/Burkitt lymphoma/leukemia in a patient 10 years after allogeneic stem cell transplant for AML. Bone Marrow Transplant 45, 191–194 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1038/bmt.2009.86

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