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Clinical significance of phenotypic features of blasts in patients with myelodysplastic syndrome.
Blood - 1 Dec 2002
Ogata Kiyoyuki, Nakamura Kyoko, Yokose Norio, Tamura Hideto, Tachibana Mikiko, Taniguchi Osamu, Iwakiri Rika, Hayashi Tatsuyuki, Sakamaki Hisashi, Murai Yoshiro, Tohyama Kaoru, Tomoyasu Shigeru, Nonaka Yasunobu, Mori Mayumi, Dan Kazuo, Yoshida Yataro
Abstract excerpt
Knowledge of the blast phenotype in myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS) would be valuable, as in other malignancies, but remains sparse. This is mainly because MDS blasts are a minor population in clinical samples, making analysis difficult. Thus, for this blast phenotype study, we prepared blast-rich specimens (using a new density centrifugation reagent for harvesting blasts) from blood and marrow samples of 95...
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