title: Flow cytometry for diagnosis and assessment of prognosis in patients with myelodysplastic syndromes.
abstract: The Myelodysplastic Syndrome (MDS) comprises a spectrum of hematopoietic stem cell disorders. Identification of additional parameters that might distinguish different risk groups or entities would be useful. Flow cytometric studies have begun to characterize individual or composite immunophenotypic abnormalities as well as light scatter properties that may be helpful for diagnosis and of prognostic value for the natural course of the disease and for outcome after therapy. Here we review the current state of the art of the use of flow cytometry in patients with MDS.
authors.affiliation: Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA 98109-1024, USA.
authors.forename: Martin
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Benesch
authors.forename: H Joachim
authors.initials: HJ
authors.lastname: Deeg
authors.forename: Denise
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Wells
authors.forename: Michael
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Loken
mesh_terms: D005434:Flow Cytometry / Q000379:methods; D006801:Humans; D016130:Immunophenotyping / Q000379:methods; D009190:Myelodysplastic Syndromes / Q000145:classification / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000276:immunology / Q000473:pathology*; D018570:Risk Assessment