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Acute myeloid leukemia in a patient with thrombocytopenia with absent radii: A case report and review of the literature.
Hematology/oncology and stem cell therapy - 1 Dec 2018
Jameson-Lee Maximilian, Chen Katherine, Ritchie Ellen, Shore Tsiporah, Al-Khattab Omar, Gergis Usama
Abstract excerpt
Thrombocytopenia with absent radii (TAR) syndrome is a rare congenital disorder characterized by low platelet counts of various severity, bilateral absent radii but thumbs are usually present. TAR syndrome is not generally associated with bone marrow failure or malignancy. Janus kinase-2, myeloproliferative leukemia protein, and calreticulin are not mutated in TAR patients. Only four cases of leukemia were...
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