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CD3+CD4+ lymphoid neoplasm: diagnostic clues for plasmablastic lymphoma instead of peripheral T-cell lymphoma

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    Harinder Gill & Yok-Lam Kwong

  2. Department of Pathology, Queen Mary Hospital, Hong Kong, China

    Rex Au-Yeung & Florence Loong

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H. Gill: treated the patient and wrote and approved the manuscript

R. Au-Yeung: performed the histopathologic diagnosis and wrote and approved the manuscript

F. Loong: performed the histopathologic diagnosis and approved the manuscript

Y.L. Kwong: treated the patient and wrote and approved the manuscript

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Gill, H., Au-Yeung, R., Loong, F. et al. CD3+CD4+ lymphoid neoplasm: diagnostic clues for plasmablastic lymphoma instead of peripheral T-cell lymphoma. Ann Hematol 101, 223–226 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00277-021-04415-0

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