Department Internal medicine

Acute myeloid leukaemia

Acute myeloid leukaemia Definition Acute myeloid leukemia (AML) is a neoplasm of myelopoiesis with variable involvement of myeloid cell lineages. Untreated AML leads to death in 50% of patients 5 months after the first symptoms (Southam CM et al 1951). It was only after the introduction of daunor...