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Clinical features of acquired erythrocytosis: Low levels of serum erythropoietin in a subset of non-neoplastic erythrocytosis patients.
Cancer medicine - 1 Jan 2023
Mori Yosuke, Araki Marito, Morishita Soji, Imai Misa, Edahiro Yoko, Ito Masafumi, Ochiai Tomonori, Shirane Shuichi, Hashimoto Yoshinori, Yasuda Hajime, Ando Jun, Ando Miki, Komatsu Norio
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BACKGROUND: Acquired erythrocytosis can be classified into polycythemia vera (PV) and non-neoplastic erythrocytosis (NNE). The vast majority of PV patients harbor JAK2 mutations, but differentiating JAK2 mutation-negative PV from NNE is challenging due to a lack of definitive molecular markers. METHODS: We studied the clinical features of 121 patients with erythrocytosis of which 47 (38.8%) were JAK2...
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