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How do you treat triple positive essential thrombocythemia with evidence of fibrosis on bone marrow biopsy, but does not meet diagnostic criteria for myelofibrosis?

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Hematology · Johns Hopkins University
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My first thought upon encountering this question was that there must have been a typographical error and the writer actually meant “negative”, not positive, because “triple positive” essential thrombocythemia (ET) is an oxymoron. MPN driver mutations are not mutually exclusive with respect to their ...

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