The Role of Flow Cytometry in the Diagnosis of Myelodysplasic Syndromes

Copyright: © 2013 Brahimi M, et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Myelodysplastic Syndromes (MDS) are a heterogeneous group of myeloid neoplasms characterized by dysplastic features of erythroid and/or myeloid and/or megakaryocytic lineages, a varying percentage of blast cells, progressive bone marrow failure and enhanced risk to evolve towards acute myeloid leukemia [1].