Article
Systemic mastocytosis: progressive evolution of an occult disease into fatal mast cell leukemia: unique findings on an unusual hematological neoplasm.
Medical oncology (Northwood, London, England) - 1 Dec 2012
Gülen T, Sander B, Nilsson G, Palmblad J, Sotlar K, Horny H-P, Hägglund H
Abstract excerpt
Systemic mastocytosis (SM) may be associated with a clonal hematopoietic non-mast cell-lineage disease (AHNMD). SM and AHNMD even may be clonally related. This report contributes to a better understanding of the different morphological aspects of SM by demonstrating that various AHNMDs can be detected in one patient during the course of disease. Routinely processed biopsy specimens of bone marrow and spleen...
Topics
- Disease Progression
- Humans
- Immunohistochemistry
- Leukemia, Mast-Cell
- Male
- Mastocytosis, Systemic
- Middle Aged
- Mutation
- Proto-Oncogene Proteins c-kit
