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Fol. Biol. 2024, 70, 270-273

https://doi.org/10.14712/fb2024070050270

A Short Retrospective Cytometric Note on Myeloblasts in Patients Suffering from Acute Myeloblastic Leukaemia, Myelodysplastic Syndrome and Chronic Myelocytic Leukaemia: Myeloblasts with a Narrow Cytoplasm without Azurophilic Granules Are Less Differentiated Committed Progenitor Stem Cells

Karel Smetana, Hana Klamová, Radka Šimečková, Dana Mikulenková

Institute of Haematology and Blood Transfusion, Prague, Czech Republic

Received October 2024
Accepted November 2024

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