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LEUKEMIA
Volume 22, Issue 1, Pages 14-22Publisher
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/sj.leu.2404955
Keywords
myeloproliferative; classification; diagnosis; WHO; JAK2; V617F
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The 2001 World Health Organization (WHO) treatise on the classification of hematopoietic tumors lists chronic myeloproliferative diseases (CMPDs) as a subdivision of myeloid neoplasms that includes the four classic myeloproliferative disorders (MPDs)-chronic myelogenous leukemia, polycythemia vera (PV), essential thrombocythemia (ET) and primary myelofibrosis (PMF)-as well as chronic neutrophilic leukemia (CNL), chronic eosinophilic leukemia/hypereosinophilic syndrome (CEL/HES) and ` CMPD, unclassifiable'. In the upcoming 4th edition of the WHO document, due out in 2008, the term ` CMPDs' is replaced by ` myeloproliferative neoplasms (MPNs)', and the MPN category now includes mast cell disease (MCD), in addition to the other subcategories mentioned above. At the same time, however, myeloid neoplasms with molecularly characterized clonal eosinophilia, previously classified under CEL/HES, are now removed from the MPN section and assembled into a new category of their own. The WHO diagnostic criteria for both the classic BCR-ABL-negative MPDs (that is PV, ET and PMF) and CEL/HES have also been revised, in the 2008 edition, by incorporating new information on their molecular pathogenesis. The current review highlights these changes and also provides diagnostic algorithms that are tailored to routine clinical practice.
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