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Validation of the WHO-defined 20% circulating blasts threshold for diagnosis of leukemic transformation in primary myelofibrosis
11 Jun 2018
Abstract excerpt
Leukemic transformation is the most dreaded complication in patients with myeloproliferative neoplasms (MPN); overall risk is estimated at 14% for primary myelofibrosis (PMF), 7% for polycythemia vera (PV) and 4% for essential thrombocythemia (ET) 1 . The dismal prognosis of blast phase MPN (MPN-BP) was recently underlined in a large Mayo Clinic study of 248 informative patients and further validated in a...
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