among 195 patients with variants of acute myelogenous leukemia ( aml ) , a minimum of 11 met our criteria of smouldering aml : patients with less than 30 % of blast cells plus promyelocytes in the bone marrow at the time of diagnosis who were observed without specific antileukemic therapy for a period of at least 6 months without entering a fulminant stage of the disease .
C0023467
acute myelogenous leukemia
C0005953
bone marrow