Acute Myeloid Leukemia in Adults

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In: The EBMT Handbook: Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation and Cellular Therapies [Internet]. 7th edition. Cham (CH): Springer; 2019. Chapter 69.

Authors

Jurjen Versluis¹, Jan J. Cornelissen¹, Charles Craddock², Miguel Á. Sanz³, Jonathan Canaani⁴, Arnon Nagler⁴

Book Editors

Enric Carreras¹, Carlo Dufour², Mohamad Mohty³, Nicolaus Kröger⁴

Affiliations

¹ Department of Hematology, Erasmus Medical Center Cancer Institute, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
² Centre for Clinical Haematology, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham, UK
³ Department of Hematology, University Hospital La Fe, University of Valencia, Valencia, Spain
⁴ Hematology and BMT Division, Chaim Sheba Medical Center, Tel-Hashomer, Israel

Book Affiliations

¹ Spanish Bone Marrow Donor Registry, Josep Carreras Foundation and Leukemia Research Institute, Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain
² Hematology Unit, IRCCS Giannina Gaslini, Geneva, Switzerland
³ Department of Hematology, Pierre and Marie Curie University, Paris, France
⁴ Department of Stem Cell Transplantation, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppend, Hamburg, Germany

Excerpt

AML is a malignancy of hematopoietic immature precursors (myeloblasts) that accumulate in the BM at the expense of their normal counterparts.

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