Figure 1.
Current9 and proposed10 World Health Organization diagnostic criteria for the myeloproliferative disorders of polycythemia vera (PV), essential thrombocythemia (ET), and primary myelofibrosis (PMF).
*Vardiman JW et al. WHO histological classification of chronic myeloproliferative diseases. In: Jaffe ES, Harris NL, Vardiman JW, eds. World Health Organization Classification of Tumors: Tumours of the Haematopoietic and Lymphoid Tissues. Lyon, France: International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) Press; 2001.
#Diagnostic bone marrow changes for each diagnosis discussed in text.