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Analysis of reactivation of hepatitis B virus in the treatment of B cell non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma in Hokkaido

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  1. Department of Internal Medicine, Hakodate Municipal Hospital, 1-10-1, Minato-cho, Hakodate, 041-8680, Japan

    Yutaka Tsutsumi & Nobuo Masauzi

  2. Department of Hematology and Oncology, Hokkaido University Graduate School of Medicine, Sapporo, Japan

    Akio Shigematsu, Junji Tanaka & Masahiro Imamura

  3. Department of Gastroenterology, Hokkaido University Graduate School of Medicine, Sapporo, Japan

    Satoshi Hashino & Masahiro Asaka

  4. Department of Internal Medicine, Asahikawa Municipal Hospital, Asahikawa, Japan

    Kouji Chiba

  5. Department of Internal Medicine, Obihiro Kosei Hospital, Obihiro, Japan

    Hajime Kobayashi

  6. Department of Hematology, National Cancer Center, Sapporo, Japan

    Mitsutoshi Kurosawa

  7. Department of Internal Medicine, Sapporo Kosei Hospital, Sapporo, Japan

    Hiroshi Iwasaki

  8. Department of Internal Medicine Aiiku Hospital, Sapporo, Japan

    Masanobu Morioka

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Tsutsumi, Y., Shigematsu, A., Hashino, S. et al. Analysis of reactivation of hepatitis B virus in the treatment of B cell non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma in Hokkaido. Ann Hematol 88, 375–377 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00277-008-0585-6

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