Is refractory anaemia with ring sideroblasts and thrombocytosis (RARS-T) a necessary or useful diagnostic category?

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Both the 2001 World Health Organisation (WHO) classification of haematopoietic neoplasms and the 2008 WHO classification revision include a distinctive diagnostic category, refractory anaemia with ring sideroblasts and thrombocytosis (RARS-T), to describe those rare patients who have both >or=15% ring sideroblasts and a sustained elevated platelet count. Recently, it has become clear that patients meeting WHO...

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