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Improvement of the thermal amplitude after rituximab treatment for cold agglutinin disease with Waldenström’s macroglobulinemia

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  1. Division of Hematology, Department of medicine, Showa University School of Medicine, 1-5-8 Hatanodai, Shinagawa-Ku, Tokyo, 142-8666, Japan

    Norimichi Hattori, Hirotsugu Ariizumi, Daisuke Adachi, Isao Matsuda, Tsuyoshi Nakamaki & Shigeru Tomoyasu

  2. Department of Blood Transfusion, Showa University School of Medicine, Shinagawa-Ku, Tokyo, Japan

    Noriko Ishii

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Hattori, N., Ishii, N., Ariizumi, H. et al. Improvement of the thermal amplitude after rituximab treatment for cold agglutinin disease with Waldenström’s macroglobulinemia. Ann Hematol 89, 103–104 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00277-009-0773-z

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