A 55-year-old woman with a one-year history of idiopathic myelofibrosis progressed to erythroleukemia. This is the first reported occurrence of erythroleukemia progression from idiopathic myelofibrosis. Certain patterns of leukemia transformation from myeloproliferative disorders are favored: Myelob
Essential thrombocythemia terminating in pure erythroleukemia
✍ Scribed by Andreas Kreft; Jürgen Burg; Thomas Fischer; Charles James Kirkpatrick
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2004
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 180 KB
- Volume
- 77
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0361-8609
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