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Gastric T-cell lymphoma associated with hemophagocytic syndrome

Rika Fukui1, Fumitake Hata, Takahiro Yasoshima

  • 1First Department of Surgery, Sapporo Medical University School of Medicine, South-1, West-16, Chuo-ku, Sapporo 060-8543, Japan. rfukui@sapmed.ac.jp

World Journal of Surgical Oncology
|October 20, 2004
PubMed
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