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Lymphoma
Volume 2012 (2012), Article ID 346084, 15 pages
doi:10.1155/2012/346084
Review Article
Diagnostic Workup of Small B Cell Lymphomas: A Laboratory Perspective
1Department of Pathology, Professional Pathology Services, 1 Science Court, Suite 200, Columbia, SC 29203, USA
2Departments of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indiana University Health Pathology Laboratory, 350 W. 11th Street IUHPL 5044, Indianapolis, IN 46202, USA
Received 11 August 2012; Accepted 25 September 2012
Academic Editor: Jan Delabie
Copyright © 2012 Kathryn Rizzo and Mehdi Nassiri. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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