The Italian Consensus Conference on Diagnostic Criteria for Myelofibrosis with Myeloid Metaplasia

British Journal of Haematology

Volumn 104, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 730-737

  Barosi, Giovanni ^a   Ambrosetti, Achille ^b   Finelli, Carlo ^c   Grossi, Alberto ^d   Leoni, Pietro ^e   Liberato, Nicola L ^a   Petti, Maria C ^f   Pogliani, Enrico ^g   Ricetti, Marilena ^b   Rupoli, Serena ^e   Visani, Guiseppe ^c   Tura, Sante ^c  

^a FONDAZIONE IRCCS POLICLINICO SAN MATTEO   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VERONA   (Italy)

^c Istituto di Ematologia 'Seragnoli'   (Italy)

^d Divisione di Ematologia   (Italy)

^e OSPEDALE CA FONCELLO   (Italy)

^f SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^g SAN GERARDO HOSPITAL   (Italy)

Author keywords

Chronic myeloproliferative disorders; Consensus conference; Diagnostic criteria; Myelodysplastic syndromes; Myelofibrosis with myeloid metaplasia

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; GENE REARRANGEMENT; HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION; HUMAN; ITALY; MYELODYSPLASTIC SYNDROME; MYELOFIBROSIS; MYELOID METAPLASIA; MYELOPROLIFERATIVE DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPLENOMEGALY;

EID: 0033003556     PISSN: 00071048     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2141.1999.01262.x     Document Type: Article

References (39)

1. Ascari, E., Balduini, C., Cazzola, M. & Invernizzi, R. (1997) Le Sindromi Mielodisplastiche. Luigi Pozzi Ed. Roma.
2. Barosi, G., Ambrosetti, A., Centra, A., Falcone, A., Finelli, C., Foa, P., Grossi, A., Guarnone, R., Leoni, P., Luciano, L., Petti, M.C., Pogliani, E., Russo, D., Ruggeri, M. & Quaglini, S., for the ICSG on MMM (Italian Cooperative Study Group on Myelofibrosis with Myeloid Metaplasia) (1998) Splenectomy and risk of blast transformation in myeloflbrosis with myeloid metaplasia. Blood, 91, 3630-3636.
3. Barosi, G., Baraldi, A., Cazzola, M., Spriano, P. & Magrini, U. (1983) Red cell aplasia in myelofibrosis with myeloid metaplasia: a distinct functional and clinical entity. Cancer, 52, 1290-1296.
4. Barosi, G., Berzuini, C., Liberato, L.N., Costa, A., Polino, G. & Ascari, E. (1988) A prognostic classification of myelofibrosis with myeloid metaplasia. British Journal of Haematology, 70, 397-401.
5. Barosi, G., Buratti, A., Costa, A., Liberato, N.L., Balduini, C., Cazzola, M., Rosti, V., Magrini, U. & Ascari, E. (1991) An atypical myeloproliferative disorder with high thrombotic risk and slow disease progression. Cancer, 68, 2310-2318.
6. Bennett, J.M., Catovsky, D., Daniel, M.T., Flandrin, G., Galton, D.A.G., Gralnick, H.R. & Sultan, C. (1982) Proposal for the classification of the myelodysplastic syndromes. British Journal of Haematology, 51, 189-199.
7. Bennett, J.M., Catovsky, D., Daniel, M.T., Flandrin, G., Galton, D.A.G., Gralnick, H., Sultan, C. & Cox, C. (1994) The chronic myeloid leukaemias: guidelines for distinguishing chronic granulocytic, atypical chronic myeloid, and chronic myelomonocytic leukaemia: proposal by the French-American-British Cooperative Leukaemia Group. British Journal of Haematology, 87, 746-754.
8. Bentley, S.A., Murray, K.H., Lewis, S.M. & Roberts, P.D. (1977) Erythroid hypoplasia in myelofibrosis: a feature associated with blastic transformation. British Journal of Haematology, 36, 41-47.
9. Berlin, M.I. (1975) Diagnosis and classification of the polycythemias. Seminars in Hematolony, 12, 339-351.
10. Bilgrami, S. & Greenberg, B.R. (1995) Polycythemin rubra vera. Seminars in Oncology, 22, 307-326.
11. Cheng, D.S. (1979) Idiopathic myelofibrosis without splenomegaly. Cancer, 43, 1761-1765.
12. Delbecq A.L., van de Ven, A.H. & Gustafson, D.H. (1975) Group Techniques for Program Planning: a Guide to Nominal Group and Delphi Processes. Scott, Foresman and Co., Glenview, III.
13. Dupriez, B., Morel, P., Demory, J.L., Lai, J.L., Simon, M., Plantier, I. & Bauters, F. (1996) Prognostic factors in agnogenic myeloid metaplasia: a report on 195 cases with a new scoring system. Blood, 88, 1013-1018.
14. Ellis, J.T., Peterson, P., Geller, S.A. & Rappaport, H. (1986) Studies of the bone marrow in polycythemia vera and the evolution of myelofibrosis and second hematologic malignancies. Seminars in Hematology, 23, 144-155.
15. Fenaux, P., Jouet, J.P., Zandecki, M., Lai, J.L., Simon, M., Pollet, J.P. & Bauters, F. (1987) Chronic and subacute myelomonocytic leukemia in the adult: a report of 60 cases with special reference to prognostic factors. British Journal of Haematology, 65, 101-106.
16. Georgii, A., Vykoupil, K.F., Buhr, T., Chortitz, H., Doler, U., Kaloutsi, V. & Werner, M. (1990) Chronic myeloproliferative disorders in bone marrow biopsies. Pathology Research and Practice, 186, 3-27.
17. Greenberg, P., Cox, C., LeBeau, M.M., Fenaux, P., Morel, P., Sanz, G., Sanz, M., Vallespi, T., Hamblin, T., Oscier, D., Ohyashoki, K., Toyama, K., Aul, C., Mufti, G. & Bennet, J. (1997) International scoring system for evaluating prognosis in myelodysplstic syndromes. Blood, 89, 2079-2088.
18. Kouides, P.A. & Bennet, J.M. (1996) Morphology and classification of the myelodysplastic syndromes and their pathologic variants. Seminars in Hematology, 33, 95-110.
19. Krauss, S. (1966) Chronic myelocytic leukemia with features simulating myelofibrosis with myeloid metaplasia. Cancer, 19, 1321-1332.
20. Krishnan, K. & Seldon, S. (1996) A new translocation, t(3;6)(q12;24) associated with chronic myelomonocytic leukemia and marrow fibrosis. Clinical and Laboratory Haematology, 18, 47-49.
21. Kvasnicka, H.M., Thiele, J., Werden, C., Zankovich, R., Diehl, V. & Fischer, R. (1997) Prognostic factors in idiopathic (primary) osteomyelofibrosis. Cancer, 80, 708-719.
22. Laszlo, J. (1975) Myeloproliferative disorders (MPD): myelofibrosis, myelosclerosis, extramedullary hematopoiesis, undifferentiated MPD, and hemorrhagic thrombocythemia. Seminars in Hematology, 2, 409-432.
23. Maschek, H., Georgii, A., Kaloutsi, V., Werner, M., Bandecar, K., Kressel, M.G., Choritz, H., Freund, M. & Hufnagl, D. (1992) Myelofibrosis in primary myelodysplastic syndromes: a retrospective study of 352 patients. European Journal of Haematology, 48, 208-214.
24. Maynadie, M., Verret, C., Moskovtchenko, P., Mueneret, F., Petrella, T., Caillot, D. & Carli, P.M. (1996) Epidemiological characteristics of myelodysplastic syndrome in a well-defined French population. British Journal of Cancer, 74, 288-290.
25. Murphy, S., Hand, H., Rosenthal, D. & Laszlo, J. (1986) Essential thrombocythemia: an interim report from the Polycythemia Vera Study Group. Seminars in Hematology, 23, 177-182.
26. Neuwirtova, R., Mocikova, K., Musilova, J., Jelinek, J., Havlicek, F., Michalova, K. & Adamkov, M. (1996) Mixed myelodysplastic and myeloproliferative syndromes. Leukemia Research, 20, 717-726.
27. Niemeyer, C.M., Arico, M., Basso, G., Biondi, A., Cantù Rajnoldi, A., Creutzig, U., Haas, O., Harbott, J., Hasle, H., Kerndrup, G., Locatelli, F., Mann, G., Stollmann-Gibbels, B., van't Veer-Korthof, E.T., van Wering, E., Zimmermann, M., and Members of the European Working Group on Myelodysplastic Syndromes in Childhood (EWOG-MDS) (1997) Chronic myelomonocytic leukemia in childhood: a retrospective analysis of 110 cases. Blood, 10, 3534-3543.
28. Pagliuca, A., Layton, D.M., Manoharan, A., Gordon, S., Green, P.J. & Mufti, G.J. (1989) Myelofibrosis in primary myelodysplastic syndromes: a clinico-morphological study in 10 cases. British Journal of Haematology, 71, 499-504.
29. Pettit, J.E., Lewis, S.M. & Nicholas, A.W. (1976) Transitional myeloproliferative disorders. British Journal of Haematology, 43, 167-184.
30. Polino, G., Barosi, G., Berzuini, A., Castelli, G., Isernia, P., Palestra, P., Riccardi, A., Rossi, F. & Magrini, U. (1986) Fatty bone marrow with severe myeloid hypoplasia in idiopathic myelofibrosis. Haematologica, 71, 117-121.
31. Rupoli, S., Da Lio, L., Sisiti, S., Campanati, G., Salvi, A., Brianzoni, M.F., D'Amico, S., Ciciripini, A. & Leoni, P. (1994) Primary myelofibrosis: a detailed statistical analysis of the clinicopathological variables influencing survival. Annals of Hematology, 68, 205-212.
32. Storniolo, A.M., Moloney, W.C., Rosenthal, D.S., Cox, C. & Bennet, J.M. (1990) Chronic myelomonocytic leukemia. Leukemia. 4, 766-770.
33. Tefferi, A., Silverstein, M.N. & Hoagland, H.C. (1995a) Primary thrombocythemia. Seminars in Oncology, 22, 334-340.
34. Tefferi, A., Silverstein, M.N. & Noel, P. (1995b) Agnogenic myeloid metaplasia. Seminars in Oncology, 22, 327-333.
35. Thiele, J., Kvasnicka, H.M., Werden, C., Zankovich, R., Diehl, V. & Fisher, R. (1996) Idiopathic primary osteo-myelofibrosis: a clinicopathological study on 208 patients with special emphasis on evolution of disease features, differentiation from essential thrombocythemia and variables of prognostic impact. Leukemia and Lymphoma, 22, 303-317.
36. Thiele, J., Wagner, S., Degel, C., Dienemann, D., Wienhold, S., Zankovich, R., Fischer, R. & Stein, H. (1990) Megakaryocyte precursors (pro- and megakaryoblasts) in bone marrow tissue from patients with reactive thrombocytosis, polycythemia vera and primary (essential) thrombocythemia;. Virchows Archiv B, Cell Pathology including Molecular Pathology, 58, 295-302.
37. Verhoef, G.E., De Wolf-Peeters, C., Ferrant, A., Deprez, S., Meeus, P., Stul, M., Zachee, P., Cassiman, J.J., Van den Berghe, H. & Boogaerts, M.A. (1991) Myelodysplastic syndromes with bone marrow fibrosis: a myelodysplastic disorder with proliferative features. Annals of Hematology, 63, 235-241.
38. Visani, G., Finelli, C., Castelli, U., Petti, M.C., Ricci, P., Vianelli, N., Gianni, L., Zuffa, E., Aloe Spiriti, M.A., Latagliata, R., Pileri, S., Magrini, U., Gugliotta, L., Morra, E., Bernasconi, C., Mandelli, F. & Tura, S. (1990) Myelofibrosis with myeloid metaplasia: clinical and haematological parameters predicting survival in a series of 133 patients. British Journal of Haematology, 75, 4-9.
39. White, L.J. & Ball, J.R. (1985) The clinical efficacy assessment project of the American College of Physicians. International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care, 1, 169-185.