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Myelodysplastic Syndromes

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Definition. Myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS) and myeloproliferative disorders (MPD) are a heterogeneous group of clonal disorders of the bone marrow stem cell characterized by the proliferation of one or more myeloid hematopoietic lines.

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Penchansky, L. (2004). Myelodysplastic Syndromes. In: Pediatric Bone Marrow. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-18799-5_7

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