Case report highlights diagnostic challenges and therapy responses in a girl with thrombocytosis.
Essential thrombocythemia (ET) is a chronic myeloproliferative neoplasm characterized by sustained thrombocytosis due to clonal proliferation of megakaryocytes. We present a case of a 13-year-old girl with chronic headache and splenomegaly, later diagnosed as ET based on bone marrow biopsy and followed longitudinally to demonstrate her response to therapy
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