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Biologic characteristics of acute leukemia after myelodysplastic syndrome.
Blood - 15 Jun 1993
Masuya M, Kita K, Shimizu N, Ohishi K, Katayama N, Sekine T, Otsuji A, Miwa H, Shirakawa S
Abstract excerpt
Ten patients with acute leukemia after primary myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS-AL) were examined to clarify the biologic nature of the leukemic cells in comparison with that of de novo acute myelocytic leukemia (AML). The morphologic and cytochemical features of the leukemic cells from all these patients corresponded well to those of de novo AML, and they were diagnosed with MDS-AML. Phenotypically, the frequent...
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