Asymptomatic essential thrombocythemia: a case report.
Essential thrombocythemia (ET) is a clonal disorder of unknown etiology involving multipotent hematopoietic progenitor cell and belongs to the spectrum of chronic myeloproliferative disorders (CMPD). It is rarest of the CMPD with no case reported from India. The case being presented was detected incidentally during routine investigations in an adult female who presented with mild abdominal discomfort.
Kapoor
Meenu
M
Department of Pathology, Motilal Nehru Medical College, Allahabad, U.P.
Misra
Vatsala
V
Singh
Mamta
M
Mehrotra
Ravi
R
Dwivedi
Manisha
M
D000328:Adult; D001773:Blood Cells / Q000473:pathology; D001853:Bone Marrow / Q000473:pathology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007194:India; D013920:Thrombocythemia, Essential / Q000097:blood / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology