Acute megakaryocytic leukemia is associated with worse outcomes than other types of acute myeloid leukemia

Blood. 2014 Dec 11;124(25):3833-4. doi: 10.1182/blood-2014-09-603415.

Authors

Smith Giri¹, Ranjan Pathak², Philippe Prouet¹, Bojia Li³, Mike G Martin³

Affiliations

¹ Department of Medicine, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, TN.
² Department of Internal Medicine, Reading Health System, West Reading, PA.
³ Department of Medicine, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, TN Department of Hematology/Oncology, The West Clinic, Memphis, TN.

PMID: 25498456
DOI: 10.1182/blood-2014-09-603415

No abstract available

Publication types

Letter

MeSH terms

Acute Disease
Adolescent
Adult
Aged
Aged, 80 and over
Female
Humans
Kaplan-Meier Estimate
Leukemia, Megakaryoblastic, Acute / diagnosis
Leukemia, Megakaryoblastic, Acute / epidemiology*
Leukemia, Myeloid / diagnosis
Leukemia, Myeloid / epidemiology*
Male
Middle Aged
Multivariate Analysis
Outcome Assessment, Health Care / statistics & numerical data
Prognosis
Proportional Hazards Models
SEER Program / statistics & numerical data*
United States / epidemiology
Young Adult