Essential thrombocythemia after allogeneic bone marrow transplantation for chronic myelogenous leukemia.
Allogeneic transplant recipients are at high risk of developing secondary malignancies as a late complication of therapy. We report a case of essential thrombocythemia occurring 8 years following bone marrow transplantation (BMT) for chronic myelogenous leukemia.
Washington University School of Medicine, Division of Bone Marrow Transplantation and Stem Cell Biology, St. Louis, MO 63110, USA.
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Khoury
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Adkins
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Zehnbauer
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Goodnough
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Brown
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Safdar
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DiPersio
D000328:Adult; D016026:Bone Marrow Transplantation / Q000009:adverse effects*; D006801:Humans; D015464:Leukemia, Myelogenous, Chronic, BCR-ABL Positive / Q000628:therapy*; D008297:Male; D013922:Thrombocytosis / Q000209:etiology*; D018183:Transplantation Chimera; D014184:Transplantation, Homologous