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Blast crisis
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A phase of chronic myelogenous leukemia in which tiredness, fever, and an enlarged spleen occur during the blastic phase, when more than 30% of the cells in the blood or bone marrow are blast cells (immature blood cells). (NCI Dictionary)
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The determination of the number of blast cells present in a blood sample.
Multiplication or reproduction by cell division of immature precursor cells that have not achieved a fully differentiated state.
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An immature blood cell.
Scan without any subject or attenuating material, but with a source, present.
