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Yanagisawa, H., Mizuta, S., Kawabata, H. et al. Faggot cells in acute myeloid leukemia with t(7;11)(p15;p15) and NUP98-HOXA9 fusion. Ann Hematol 100, 2121–2123 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00277-020-04122-2
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