Acute promyelocytic leukemia presenting as pulmonary thromboembolism: Not all APLs bleed
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عنوان ژورنال: Avicenna Journal of Medicine
سال: 2015
ISSN: 2231-0770
DOI: 10.4103/2231-0770.165125