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Lymphomas in Children and Adolescents

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Lymphomas are the third leading tumor type among all childhood tumors, after leukemias and central nervous system tumors including miscellaneous intracranial and intra-spinal neoplasms [1].

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Fassina, A., d’Amore, E.S.G., Nicolè, L., Cappellesso, R., Pohar Marinšek, Ž. (2018). Lymphomas in Children and Adolescents. In: Klijanienko, J., Pohar Marinšek, Ž., Domanski, H. (eds) Small Volume Biopsy in Pediatric Tumors. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-61027-6_9

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