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We thank the NSFC (numbers 30901367 and 31070866), the Natural Science Foundation of Guangdong Province (2016A030313585) and the Natural Science Foundation of Nanfang Hospital (numbers 2010037 and G2011021).
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Zhang, Q., Zhou, Y., Majaw, J. et al. Acute appendicitis in leukaemia patients undergoing haematopoietic stem cell transplantation during the neutropaenic phase: a case series from a single BMT centre in China. Bone Marrow Transplant 53, 219–222 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1038/bmt.2017.209
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