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Double hit B cell precursor leukemia/lymphoma in a patient with a prior diagnosis of follicular lymphoma: a diagnostic and therapeutic dilemma

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  1. Servicio de Hematología y Oncología Médica, Hospital Universitario Morales Meseguer, Centro Regional de Hemodonación, Universidad de Murcia, IMIB-Arrixaca, CIBERER, Murcia, Spain

    Carlos Bravo-Perez, Inmaculada Pajares, Ma Luz Amigo, Ma Dolores Garcia-Malo & Francisco Jose Ortuño

  2. Servicio de Hematología, Hospital Universitario Rafael Méndez, Lorca, Spain

    Begoña Muiña

  3. Servicio de Anatomía Patológica, Hospital Universitario Rafael Méndez, Lorca, Spain

    Hugo Escobar

  4. Laboratorio de Citogenética, ATRYS Health, Barcelona, Spain

    Jonathan Garcia

  5. Servicio de Anatomía Patológica, Hospital Universitario Fundación Jimenez Diaz, Madrid, Spain

    Socorro María Rodriguez-Pinilla & Miguel Angel Piris

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Bravo-Perez, C., Pajares, I., Muiña, B. et al. Double hit B cell precursor leukemia/lymphoma in a patient with a prior diagnosis of follicular lymphoma: a diagnostic and therapeutic dilemma. Ann Hematol 98, 2837–2839 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00277-019-03829-1

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