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Transformation of a chronic myeloproliferative neoplasm to acute myelogenous leukemia: does anything work?
Current hematologic malignancy reports - 1 Mar 2012
Kundranda Madappa N, Tibes Raoul, Mesa Ruben A
Abstract excerpt
The BCR/ABL-negative myeloproliferative neoplasms (MPNs) of essential thrombocythemia, polycythemia vera, and primary myelofibrosis, over the natural course of their disease, have an increasing predisposition to transform to overt acute myeloid leukemia (AML)-most appropriately referred to as MPN-blast phase (MPN-BP). Although this transformation is a rare event, once AML has occurred, it is associated with a...
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