Quantification of IGF-1 Receptor May Be Useful in Diagnosing Polycythemia Vera-Suggestion to Be Added to Be One of the Minor Criterion.

Endogenous erythroid colony (EEC) formation is one of the minor criteria for diagnosing polycythemia vera (PV) according to 2008 WHO diagnostic criteria. But EEC requires bone marrow aspiration and sophisticated laboratory procedures; therefore, practically it is rarely used to diagnose PV. Insulin-...

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Main Authors: Jen C Wang, Guanfang Shi, Stacey Baptiste, Maryna Yarotska, Hemant Sindhu, Ching Wong, Madhumati Kalavar, Vladimir Gotlieb, Andrei Bandarchuk, Hui Chen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2016-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5094699?pdf=render