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Cold autoimmune hemolytic anemia resolved by rituximab

Massimiliano Palombi1, Pasquale Niscola, Alessio Pio Perrotti

  • 1Department Hematology, S. Eugenio Hospital, Rome, Italy.

Asian Journal of Transfusion Science
|September 23, 2010
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