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. 2016 Feb 12;30(5):1126–1132. doi: 10.1038/leu.2015.360

Table 3. Differentiation and comparison of the BSCH-defined cohort of ET patients 1, 2 by applying the diagnostic criteria of the WHO classification 3 .

  BCSH-defined ET (n=238) WHO-defined ET (n=232)
ET 141 (59.2%) 232 (100%)
prePMF 77 (32.4%) 0
PV 16 (6.7%) 0
PMF 4 (1.7%) 0

Abbreviations: BCSH, British Committee of Standards in Haematology; ET, essential thrombocythemia; PMF, advanced PMF; prePMF, prefibrotic primary myelofibrosis; PV, polycythemia vera.