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A 4-year-old child with leukemia and an enlarging arm lesion

Ahmed Mater1, Ghada Al-Sulaiti, Donna L Johnston

  • 1Department of Pediatrics, Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ont.

CMAJ : Canadian Medical Association Journal = Journal De L'Association Medicale Canadienne
|February 3, 2005
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