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Paris staging system for primary gastrointestinal lymphomas
  1. A Ruskoné-Fourmestraux1,
  2. B Dragosics2,
  3. A Morgner3,
  4. A Wotherspoon4,
  5. D de Jong5
  1. 1Hotel Dieu, Paris, France
  2. 2Gesundheitszentrum, Vienna, Austria
  3. 3Medical Department 1, Technical University Hospital, Dresden, Germany
  4. 4Royal Marsden Hospital, London, UK
  5. 5The Netherlands Cancer Institute, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, on behalf of the European Gastro-Intestinal Lymphoma Study Group (EGILS)
  1. Correspondence to:
    Dr D De Jong, Department of Pathology, the Netherlands Cancer Institute, Amsterdam 1066 CX, the Netherlands;
    djong{at}nki.nl

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