Polycythemia vera and essential thrombocythemia are the most common chronic myeloproliferative neoplasms; their molecular basis has been appreciated only recently and is briefly discussed in this ...

This is called primary thrombocythemia. If it's caused by an underlying disorder that triggers the stem cells in your bone marrow to make more platelets, it's called secondary thrombocytosis.

This book is an outstanding resource that includes a discussion of both classical myeloproliferative neoplasms, such as essential thrombocythemia, polycythemia vera and myelofibrosis, and also less ...