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European Bone Marrow Working Group trial on reproducibility of World Health Organization criteria to discriminate essential thrombocythemia from prefibrotic primary myelofibrosis: Haematologica 2012;97(3):360-5 - Comment

Emanuela BoveriUmberto GianelliJürgen ThieleHans Michael KvasnickaFrancesco PassamontiVito FrancoAttilio OraziHeinz GisslingerTiziano BarbuiAyalew Tefferi

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WHO classificationPathologymedicine.medical_specialtyGroup trialPediatricsessential thrombocythemiaEssential thrombocythemiabusiness.industryMEDLINEmyelofibrosisHematologySettore MED/08 - Anatomia Patologicamedicine.diseaseWorld healthmedicine.anatomical_structuremedicineWHO classification; early primary myelofibrosis; essential thrombocythemiaearly primary myelofibrosiBone marrowMyelofibrosisWho classificationbusiness

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Any study of myeloproliferative neoplasms (MPNs) that lacks adequate clinical input is doomed to cause diagnostic uncertainty and increased controversy. In the paper by Buhr et al. published in Haematologica,[1][1] the authors studied 102 cases of essential thrombocythemia (ET) and early primary

10.3324/haematol.2011.061432http://hdl.handle.net/11383/2023290