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Acquired Pelger-Huet anomaly in two patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia treated with venetoclax

  • Christoph Robier EMAIL logo , Gudrun Knaus and Margot Egger

Corresponding author: Christoph Robier, MD, PD, Institute of Laboratory Diagnostics, Hospital of the Brothers of St. John of God, Marschallgasse 12, 8020 Graz, Austria, Phone: +43 316 7067 26671, Fax: +43 316 7067 21505, E-mail:

  1. Research funding: None declared.

  2. Author contributions: All authors have accepted responsibility for the entire content of this manuscript and approved its submission.

  3. Competing interests: Authors state no conflict of interest.

  4. Informed consent: Informed consent was obtained from all individuals included in this study.

  5. Ethical approval: Research involving human subjects complied with all relevant national regulations, institutional policies and is in accordance with the tenets of the Helsinki Declaration (as revised in 2013), and has been approved by the authors’ Institutional Review Board.

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Received: 2021-04-22
Revised: 2021-05-04
Accepted: 2021-05-04
Published Online: 2021-05-14
Published in Print: 2021-09-27

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