PNH-phenotype cells in patients with idiopathic cytopenia of undetermined significance (ICUS) with megakaryocytic hypoplasia and thrombocytopenia: Correspondence

British Journal of Haematology

Volumn 150, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 705-707

  Ando, Keiko ^a   Tanaka, Yuko ^a   Hashimoto, Yuko ^a   Ohyashiki, Junko H ^b   Sugimori, Naomi ^c   Nakao, Shinji ^c   Ohyashiki, Kazuma ^a  

^a Haematology Division   (Australia)

^b TOKYO MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c KANAZAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

idiopathic cytopenia of undetermined significance; PNH phenotype; thrombocytopenia

Indexed keywords

CELL STRUCTURE; CYTOPENIA; HUMAN; HYPOPLASIA; IDIOPATHIC CYTOPENIA OF UNDETERMINED SIGNIFICANCE; LETTER; MEGAKARYOCYTE; MYELODYSPLASTIC SYNDROME; PAROXYSMAL NOCTURNAL HEMOGLOBINURIA; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFRACTORY ANEMIA; REFRACTORY CYTOPENIA WITH MULTILINEAGE DYSPLASIA; THROMBOCYTOPENIA;

HEMOGLOBINURIA, PAROXYSMAL; HUMANS; IMMUNOPHENOTYPING; MEGAKARYOCYTES; THROMBOCYTOPENIA;

EID: 77956335798     PISSN: 00071048     EISSN: 13652141     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2141.2010.08257.x     Document Type: Letter

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