Refractory anaemia with ring sideroblasts associated with marked thrombocytosis (RARS-T) and JAK2V617F mutation transformed to acute myeloid leukaemia with chromosomal evolution including monosomy 7

Leukemia Research

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 2010, Pages

  Pich, Achille ^a   Godio, Laura ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CD34 ANTIGEN; ERYTHROPOIETIN; HEMOGLOBIN; HEMOSIDERIN; HYDROXYUREA; IRON; JANUS KINASE 2; MYELOPEROXIDASE; PHENYLALANINE; STEM CELL FACTOR RECEPTOR; VALINE;

ACUTE GRANULOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; AGED; ANEMIA; BLOOD ANALYSIS; BONE MARROW BIOPSY; CANCER MORTALITY; CASE REPORT; CHROMOSOME 5Q; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; CHROMOSOME DELETION 5; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; EXON; FEMALE; GENE MUTATION; HUMAN; KARYOTYPE 46,XX; LETTER; MALIGNANT TRANSFORMATION; MONOSOMY 7; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REFRACTORY ANEMIA WITH RINGED SIDEROBLASTS; THROMBOCYTE COUNT;

AGED; ANEMIA, REFRACTORY, WITH EXCESS OF BLASTS; CELL TRANSFORMATION, NEOPLASTIC; CHROMOSOME ABERRATIONS; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 7; FEMALE; HUMANS; JANUS KINASE 2; LEUKEMIA, MYELOID, ACUTE; MONOSOMY; MUTATION, MISSENSE; THROMBOCYTOSIS;

EID: 74849126501     PISSN: 01452126     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.leukres.2009.08.019     Document Type: Letter

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