The Myelodysplastic Syndromes

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Várkonyi, Judit (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2011.
• Subjects: Medicine.; Hematology.; Biomedicine.; Biomedicine general.; Medicine/Public Health, general.

Myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS) are the most common hematological malignancies involving mostly the elderly population. The major morbidity relates to patients’ symptomatic cytopenias.MDS was previously named as  “preleukemia “ or “ smoldering leukemia” as the lack of terminal cells in MDS and becau...