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Successful treatment by using a modified SMILE regimen and autologous hematopoietic stem cell transplantation in a pediatric primary EBV-positive nodular NK/T cell lymphoma patient

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We gratefully acknowledge the pathologists in our hospital for their expertise and generous provision of data. We thank Gillian Campbell, PhD, from Liwen Bianji, Edanz Group China (www.liwenbianji.cn/ac), for editing the English text of a draft of this manuscript.

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  1. Jian Li and Junxin Ye contributed equally to this work.

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  1. Department of Hematology and Oncology, Children’s Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Code 72, Guangzhou Road, Nanjing City, Jiangsu Province, China

    Jian Li, Yongren Wang, Jun Wang & Yongjun Fang

  2. Key Laboratory of Hematology, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, 210008, China

    Jian Li, Yongren Wang, Jun Wang & Yongjun Fang

  3. Department of Infectious Diseases, Children’s Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, 210008, Jiangsu Province, China

    Juxin Ye

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Li, J., Ye, J., Wang, Y. et al. Successful treatment by using a modified SMILE regimen and autologous hematopoietic stem cell transplantation in a pediatric primary EBV-positive nodular NK/T cell lymphoma patient. Ann Hematol 101, 433–435 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00277-021-04459-2

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