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Non-nasal natural killer cell lymphoma: not non-nasal after all

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  1. Department of Medicine, Professorial Block, Queen Mary Hospital, Pokfulam Road, Hong Kong, China

    Eric Tse & Yok-Lam Kwong

  2. Department of Pathology, Queen Mary Hospital, Pokfulam Road, Hong Kong, China

    Rock Leung & Wing-Hung Lau

  3. Department of Diagnostic Radiology, Queen Mary Hospital, Pokfulam Road, Hong Kong, China

    Pek-Lan Khong

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Tse, E., Leung, R., Khong, PL. et al. Non-nasal natural killer cell lymphoma: not non-nasal after all. Ann Hematol 88, 185–187 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00277-008-0562-0

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