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Simms-Waldrip, T., Ikeda, A., Goldfinger, D. et al. Dramatic response to rituximab in a child with severe cold autoimmune hemolytic anemia arising after allogeneic hematopoietic SCT. Bone Marrow Transplant 45, 201–202 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1038/bmt.2009.108
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