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Mycobacterial spindle cell pseudotumor mimicking Richter transformation in a patient with hairy cell leukemia

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  1. Sfeir MM, Schuetz A, Besien KV, Borczuk AC, Soave R, Jenkins SG, et al. Mycobacterial spindle cell pseudotumour: epidemiology and clinical outcomes. J Clin Pathol. 2018;71(7):626–30.

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  1. Department of Pathology, Institute of Medical Genetics and Pathology, University Hospital of Basel, University of Basel, Schönbeinstrasse 40, 4031, Basel, Switzerland

    Simon Haefliger & Alexandar Tzankov

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  1. Simon Haefliger
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SH and AT wrote the manuscript, and AT established the diagnosis.

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Correspondence to Simon Haefliger.

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All procedures followed were in accordance with the ethical standards of the responsible committee on human experimentation (institutional and national) and with the Helsinki Declaration of 1975, as revised in 2008.

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Written consent could not be obtained, as the patient died 5 years ago. The patient's wife also died 2 years ago. The patient had no children or any known siblings. All sensitive personal data were anonymized in the article.

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Haefliger, S., Tzankov, A. Mycobacterial spindle cell pseudotumor mimicking Richter transformation in a patient with hairy cell leukemia. Int J Hematol 118, 153–154 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12185-023-03628-5

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