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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Mar 1.
Published in final edited form as: Am J Hematol. 2017 Mar;92(3):297–310. doi: 10.1002/ajh.24637

Figure 2.

Figure 2

A schematic approach to the differential diagnosis of bone marrow ring sideroblasts.

Key- BM- bone marrow, RS- ring sideroblasts, MDS-RS-SLD- myelodysplastic syndrome with ring sideroblasts and single lineage dysplasia (previously called RARS), MDS-RS-MLD- myelodysplastic syndromes with ring sideroblasts and multilineage dysplasia (previously called RCMD-RS), MDS-EB-myelodysplastic syndrome with excess blasts (previously called RAEB), PMF- primary myelofibrosis, CMML- chronic myelomonocytic leukemia, PB- peripheral blood, XLSA- X linked sideroblastic anemia, XLSA/A- XLSA with ataxia, SA- sideroblastic anemia.