Table 3. Evaluation of TEMs in paired samples of peripheral blood (PB) and spleen tissue derived MNCs of patients with primary myelofibrosis (PMF) and in the PB of healthy not splenectomised subjects (CTRLs).

TEMs are shown as median (range).

	n	PB TEMs	Spleen TEMs	p
PMF	6	4.8(0–11)	27 (2.6–55.6)	0.04
CTRLs	13	20.2 (10–29)	NA	NA
p PMF vs CTRLs		0.002