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Aplastic Anemias

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Modern Hematology

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The aplastic anemias are characterized by peripheral blood pancytopenia, bone marrow hypocellularity, and absence of a clonal hematological process. They have an incidence of approximately two patients per million population in the West and four per million in Asia.

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  1. University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA

    Ronald Paquette MD (Associate Professor of Medicine)

  2. Louisiana State University, Shreveport, LA, USA

    Reinhold Munker MD (Associate Professor of Medicine)

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  1. Louisiana State University, Shreveport, LA, USA

    Reinhold Munker MD

  2. Ludwigs-Maximilians Universität, Munich, Germany

    Erhard Hiller MD

  3. Feist Weiller Cancer Center, Louisiana State University, Shreveport, LA, USA

    Jonathan Glass MD

  4. University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA

    Ronald Paquette MD

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Paquette, R., Munker, R. (2007). Aplastic Anemias. In: Munker, R., Hiller, E., Glass, J., Paquette, R. (eds) Modern Hematology. Contemporary Hematology. Humana Press. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-59745-149-9_12

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