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JAK2 V617F positive essential thrombocythemia developing in a patient with CD5⁻ chronic lymphocytic leukemia.
Chinese medical journal - 1 Jun 2012
Wei Ju, Wang Chun, Qin You-Wen, Zhu Jun, Gao Yang-Rong, Cai Qi, Yan Shi-Ke
Abstract excerpt
Coexistence of chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) and essential thrombocythemia (ET) in a patient is extremely rare, with only 10 cases reported thus far in literature. This paper describes a 94-year-old male having atypical B-CLL with CD5⁻ (CD5⁻) phenotype and ET. In this patient, we performed interphase fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) analysis which revealed 13q14.3 deletion in 31% of B-lymphocyte...
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