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Cup-like acute myeloid leukemia: new disease or artificial phenomenon?
Haematologica - 1 Feb 2008
Kroschinsky Frank P, Schäkel Ulrike, Fischer Rainer, Mohr Brigitte, Oelschlaegel Uta, Repp Roland, Schaich Markus, Soucek Silke, Baretton Gustavo, Ehninger Gerhard, Thiede Christian
Abstract excerpt
We investigated cup-like nuclear morphology of acute myeloid leukemia blasts in 266 randomly selected patients and its association with hematologic findings, disease markers and outcome data. Cup-like acute myeloid leukemia was diagnosed in 55 patients (21%). It was associated with female sex, high white blood cell and blast cell counts, normal karyotype, and low CD34 and HLA-DR expression. Mutations of FLT3,...
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