Human Pathology
Volume 37, Issue 1 , Pages 54-60 , January 2006

Immunohistochemical and genetic analysis of Chinese nasal natural killer/T-cell lymphomas

,Accepted 14 September 2005.

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☆ This work was supported by research grants C03020303 from Chinese National Natural Sciences Foundation, Beijing, China, and by special fund for promotion of education, Ministry of Education, China.

PII: S0046-8177(05)00525-3

doi: 10.1016/j.humpath.2005.09.020

Human Pathology
Volume 37, Issue 1 , Pages 54-60 , January 2006

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