1. New therapeutic approaches in primary systemic AL amyloidosis

   • O. Sezer
   • J. Eucker
   • K. Possinger

   REVIEW ARTICLE Pages: 1 - 6

2. Epidemiological situation and treatment of patients with thalassemia major in Germany: results of the German multicenter β-thalassemia study

   • H. Cario
   • K. Stahnke
   • E. Kohne

   ORIGINAL ARTICLE Pages: 7 - 12

3. Ex vivo expansion of CD34+/CD41+ late progenitors from enriched peripheral blood CD34+ cells

   • P. Halle
   • C. Rouzier
   • F. Deméocq

   ORIGINAL PAPER Pages: 13 - 19

4. Cytogenetic and Southern blot analysis to demonstrate clonality and to estimate prognosis in patients with myelodysplastic syndromes

   • H. M. Schmetzer
   • B. Poleck
   • J. Mittermüller

   ORIGINAL ARTICLE Pages: 20 - 29

5. Intensive chemotherapy with idarubicin, ara-C, etoposide, and m-AMSA followed by immunotherapy with interleukin-2 for myelodysplastic syndromes and high-risk Acute Myeloid Leukemia (AML)

   • A. Ganser
   • G. Heil
   • D. Hoelzer

   ORIGINAL ARTICLE Pages: 30 - 35

6. Near-tetraploid minimally differentiated acute myeloid leukemia with extensive erythrophagocytosis by leukemic blasts

   • Su-Peng Yeh
   • Y. -C. Wang
   • H. Wu

   CASE REPORT Pages: 36 - 39

7. Leukemic transformation of essential thrombocythemia without previous cytoreductive treatment

   • P. O. Andersson
   • B. Ridell
   • J. Kutti

   CASE REPORT Pages: 40 - 42

8. Astrovirus enteritis in a chronic lymphocytic leukemia patient treated with fludarabine monophosphate

   • P. Coppo
   • C. Scieux
   • K. Lassoued

   CASE REPORT Pages: 43 - 45

9. Littoral cell angioma with severe thrombocytopenia

   • I. Español
   • E. Lerma
   • N. Pujol-Moix

   CASE REPORT Pages: 46 - 49