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Blast Crisis

"Blast Crisis" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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An advanced phase of chronic myelogenous leukemia, characterized by a rapid increase in the proportion of immature white blood cells (blasts) in the blood and bone marrow to greater than 30%.


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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Blast Crisis" by people in this website by year, and whether "Blast Crisis" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 24 publications over 14 distinct years, with a maximum of 2 publications in 1995 and 1996 and 1999 and 2003 and 2008 and 2010 and 2013 and 2020 and 2023 and 2024
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