Table 1. Paired samples of bone marrow cells and smears.

Patient	Clinical diagnosis	Smear sample	BMC sample	Elapsed years
#106	MDS	Unstained	Frozen	4
#113	MDS	MGG-stained	Frozen	11
#181	MDS suspected	Unstained	Fresh	Fresh
#184	AA	Unstained	Fresh	Fresh
#220	t-AML	Unstained	Frozen	0.1

MDS, myelodysplastic syndrome; AA, aplastic anemia; t, therapy-related; AML, acute myeloid leukemia; MGG, May-Grünwald Giemsa.