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This work was supported in part by funds for Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C) from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology of Japan (Grant Number #16K10034 to TN).
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Saito, A., Nishikawa, T., Oyoshi, T. et al. Giant radiation-induced cavernous haemangioma before reduced-intensity bone marrow transplantation for acute lymphoblastic leukaemia. Bone Marrow Transplant 54, 312–315 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41409-018-0272-8
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