Recent advances in understanding myelofibrosis and essential thrombocythemia
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Recent advances in understanding myelofibrosis and essential thrombocythemia [version 1; referees: 2 approved]
The classic -negative myeloproliferative neoplasms (MPNs), a form BCR-ABL of chronic malignant hemopathies, have been classified into polycythemia vera (PV), essential thrombocythemia (ET), and primary myelofibrosis (PMF). ET and PMF are two similar disorders in their pathogenesis, which is marked by a key role of the megakaryocyte (MK) lineage. Whereas ET is characterized by MK proliferation, ...
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عنوان ژورنال: F1000Research
سال: 2016
ISSN: 2046-1402
DOI: 10.12688/f1000research.8081.1