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Systemic mastocytosis associated with acute myeloid leukaemia: report of two cases and detection of the c‐kit mutation Asp‐816 to Val
1 Dec 1998
Abstract excerpt
A subset of patients with systemic mastocytosis (SM) develop acute myeloid leukaemia (AML). However, little is known about the biology of such leukaemias and their relationship to the mast cell (MC) lineage. We report on two female patients who suffered from SM and AML. According to FAB criteria, the leukaemias were classified as AML-M4 (patient 1) and AML-MO (patient 2). The coexistence of the two distinct...
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