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Refractory anemia with ring sideroblasts.
Best practice & research. Clinical haematology - 1 Dec 2013
Malcovati Luca, Cazzola Mario
Abstract excerpt
Refractory anemia with ring sideroblasts (RARS) is a subtype of myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS) characterized by 15% or more ring sideroblasts in the bone marrow according to the WHO classification. After Perls staining, ring sideroblasts are defined as erythroblasts in which there are 5 or more siderotic granules covering at least a third of the nuclear circumference. The iron deposited in perinuclear...
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