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Huang, M., Bayerl, M. & Lucas, K. An instructive case of hypercalcemia preceding relapse of AML following allogeneic BMT. Bone Marrow Transplant 46, 1028–1029 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1038/bmt.2010.228
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