CD34-POSITIVE BLASTOMA IN A PATIENT WITH IDIOPATHIC MYELOFIBROSIS

Citation
T. Komeno et al., CD34-POSITIVE BLASTOMA IN A PATIENT WITH IDIOPATHIC MYELOFIBROSIS, Internal medicine, 34(10), 1995, pp. 1035-1037
Citations number
NO
Categorie Soggetti
Medicine, General & Internal
Journal title
ISSN journal
09182918
Volume
34
Issue
10
Year of publication
1995
Pages
1035 - 1037
Database
ISI
SICI code
0918-2918(1995)34:10<1035:CBIAPW>2.0.ZU;2-L
Abstract
We report CD34-positive ''blastoma'' which developed in a patient with idiopathic myelofibrosis (IMF), A 48-year-old woman was diagnosed as having essential thrombocythemia, then the disease had transformed int o IMF 41 months later, Finally, a subcutaneous tumor, composed of blas tic cells positive for CD34 but negative for lineage-specific antigens , developed without any evidence of systemic leukemia transformation.