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Cutaneous macrophage infiltration in acute GvHD

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Terakura, S., Martin, P., Shulman, H. et al. Cutaneous macrophage infiltration in acute GvHD. Bone Marrow Transplant 50, 1135–1137 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1038/bmt.2015.114

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