Essential thrombocythemia (El) Is an uncommon myeloprollferatlve disorder, which is thought to develop from a multlpotent stem cell. Like other myeloprollferatlve diseases, ET is assoclated with an increased risk of development of acute leukemla (AL). However, the large majority of cases of leukemic
Acute biphenotypic leukemia arising in a patient with essential thrombocythemia
โ Scribed by Gee Chuan Wong; Lai Heng Lee
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2006
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 79 KB
- Volume
- 81
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0361-8609
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