Randomized clinical trials in adult acute lymphoblastic leukemia: which is the question?

Editorial

. 1998 Mar;83(3):193-6.

Editorial

R Bassan. Haematologica. 1998 Mar.

. 1998 Mar;83(3):193-6.

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