Aurelia Tatic, Mariana Vasilică, Adriana Coliţă, Didona Vasilache, Camelia Dobrea, Cerasela Jardan, Amelia Maria Găman, Ana Manuela Crişan, D Coliţă, D Coriu
In the WHO classification, there is a provisional entity called Myelodysplastic/Myeloproliferative Neoplasm, Unclassifiable (MDS/MPN, U). Refractory anemia with ringed sideroblasts associated with marked thrombocytosis (RARS-T) was included in this category. Recently published studies report a small percentage of patients with RARS-T. Sixty percent of these have JAK2 V617F mutation, which can suggest the coexistence of two pathological conditions (MDS and MPN). In this paper, we analyzed three patients diagnosed with RARS-T in the Department of Hematology, "Fundeni" Clinical Institute, Bucharest, Romania, during the period 2005-2011...
2013: Romanian Journal of Morphology and Embryology