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Prospective evaluation of the diagnostic value of sensitive KIT D816V mutation analysis of blood in adults with suspected systemic mastocytosis.
Allergy - 1 Nov 2017
Kristensen T, Vestergaard H, Bindslev-Jensen C, Mortz C G, Kjaer H F, Ollert M, Møller M B, Broesby-Olsen S
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BACKGROUND: Sensitive KIT D816V mutation analysis of blood has been proposed to guide bone marrow (BM) investigation in suspected systemic mastocytosis (SM). The aim of this prospective study was for the first time to compare the D816V status of the "screening blood sample" used to guide BM biopsy in suspected SM to the outcome of the subsequent BM investigation. METHODS: Fifty-eight adult patients with suspected...
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