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Volume 338:1925-1926 June 25, 1998 Number 26
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Case 5-1998: Bone Marrow Blasts in Chronic Myelomonocytic Leukemia

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To the Editor: There is an error in Table 3 of Case 5-1998 (Feb. 12 issue),1 which concerns a 51-year-old man with myelodysplasia and a pulmonary infiltrate. The percentage of blasts in the bone marrow of patients with chronic myelomonocytic leukemia should be 1 to 30 percent rather than 20 percent or more. Chronic myelomonocytic leukemia is similar in most respects to all the other subtypes of the French–American–British classification of myelodysplastic syndromes except for the presence of monocytosis (>1000 monocytes per microliter).2,3 The outcome of this disease is related to the percentage of blasts in bone marrow.


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