Published: 12 Dec 2024
The Placement of Auer Rods as a Single Diagnostic Criterion for the Highest-Risk Category of Myelodysplastic Syndromes: A Single-Institution Study and Critical Analysis
Volume 2
Accurate determination of prognostic risk is critical for patients and treating clinicians. The French-American-British classification of myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS) described refractory anemia with excess blasts (RAEB) in transformation (RAEB-T), including two subsets with <20% bone marrow (BM) blasts, which were reclassified as RAEB-2, the highest-risk MDS category in the 2001 World Health Organization classification. Those diagnostic criteria have been retained until now with nomenclature changes from RAEB-2 to “MDS with..