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A Case of Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma and Invasive Thymoma Treated with R-Chop Therapy

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  1. Department of Internal Medicine, Hakodate Municipal Hospital, 1-10-1 Minato-Cho, 041-8680, Hakodate, Japan

    Hiroaki Yamato, Yutaka Tsutsumi, Nobuyuki Ehira, Hiroe Kanamori & Nobuo Masauzi

  2. Departments of Clinical Pathology, Hakodate Municipal Hospital, Hakodate, Japan

    Norihiko Shimoyama

  3. Departments of Cardiovascular Surgery, Hakodate Municipal Hospital, Hakodate, Japan

    Tadashi Hasegawa

  4. Departments of Hematology and Oncology, Hokkaido University Graduate School of Medicine, Sapporo, Japan

    Junji Tanaka & Masahiro Imamura

  5. Departments of Gastroenterology, Hokkaido University Graduate School of Medicine, Sapporo, Japan

    Masahiro Asaka

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Yamato, H., Tsutsumi, Y., Ehira, N. et al. A Case of Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma and Invasive Thymoma Treated with R-Chop Therapy. Int J Hematol 83, 464–466 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1532/IJH97.05192

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