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The aplastic anemias are characterized by peripheral blood pancytopenia, bone marrow hypocellularity, and absence of a clonal hematologic process. They have an incidence of approximately two patients per million population in the West and four per million in Asia.
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Munker, R., Hiller, E., Paquette, R. (2000). Aplastic Anemias. In: Modern Hematology. Contemporary Hematology. Humana Press, Totowa, NJ. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-59259-203-6_12
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