title: Acquired idiopathic sideroblastic anemia: a new chromosomal abnormality.
abstract: We describe two patients with acquired idiopathic sideroblastic anemia and a terminal deletion of chromosome No. 11. In spite of the marked chromosomal abnormality neither patient has developed acute leukemia.
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000756:Anemia, Sideroblastic / Q000235:genetics*; D002869:Chromosome Aberrations; D002871:Chromosome Banding; D002872:Chromosome Deletion; D025063:Chromosome Disorders; D002906:Chromosomes, Human, 6-12 and X; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007621:Karyotyping; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged