Yutaka Tsukune¹, Makoto Sasaki¹, Atsushi Isoda², Akio Saito², Norina Tanaka³, Shigeki Ito⁴, Hideto Tamura⁵, Hiroshi Handa⁶, Michiaki Koike⁷, Sakae Tanosaki⁸, Yoichi Imai⁹, Takeshi Odajima¹⁰, Hiroki Sugimori¹¹, Junji Tanaka³, Mariko Ishibashi¹², Norio Komatsu¹ (1.Department of Hematology, Juntendo University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan, 2.Department of Hematology, Shibukawa Medical Center, Shibukawa, Japan, 3.Department of Hematology, Tokyo Women's Medical University, Tokyo, Japan, 4.Department of Medical Oncology, Iwate Medical University, Morioka, Japan, 5.Department of Hematology, Nippon Medical School, Tokyo, Japan, 6.Department of Hematology, Gunma University Graduate School of Medicine, Maebashi, 7.Department of Hematology, Juntendo University Shizuoka Hospital, Izunokuni, Japan, 8.Department of Hematology, The Fraternity Memorial Hospital, Tokyo, Japan, 9.Department of Hematology/Oncology, IMSUT Hospital, The Institute of Medical Science, 10.Faculty of Health Science, Daito Bunka University, Higashimatsuyama, Japan, 11.Department of Preventive Medicine, Daito Bunka University, Higashimatsuyama, Japan, 12.Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Nippon Medical School, Tokyo, Japan)

Christopher Chin Keong Liam, Sen Mui Tan, Jerome, Tsen Chuen Tan, Tee Chuan Ong, Kian Boon Law, Yi Lin Lee, Jameela Sathar (Hematology, Ampang Hospital, Ampang, Selangor, Malaysia)

Naoko Harada, Mitsunori Ueno, Taichi Hirano, Norikazu Mitsui, Toshiro Kawakita, Yoshiko Inoue, Tatsunori Sakai, Atsuko Tsukamoto, Tetsuyuki Kiyokawa, Michihiro Hidaka (NHO Kumamoto Medical Center)

Sreejesh Sreedharanunni, Sonia Rana, Arambam Gautam, Pankaj Malhotra, Neelam Varma (Dept. of Hematology, Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, Republic of India)

Shin Ohara, Shiro Ide, Tomoyuki Uchida, Morihiro Inoue, Jian Hua, Masao Hagihara (Hematol., Eiju General Hospital, Tokyo, Japan)

Yuzuru Hosoda^1,2, Sayaka Suzuki^1,2, Tetsuya Fukuda¹, Toru Motokura^1,2 (1.Department of Hematology, Tottori University Hospital, 2.Division of Clinical Laboratory Medicine, Tottori University Faculty of Medicine)

Nana Arai¹, Norimichi Hattori¹, Ayaka Nakata¹, Yohei Sasaki¹, Shotaro Shimada¹, Megumi Watanuki¹, Maasa Abe¹, So Murai¹, Yuta Baba², Shun Fujiwara¹, Yukiko Kawaguchi¹, Nobuyuki Kabasawa², Hiroyuki Tsukamoto¹, Kouji Yanagisawa¹, Hiroshi Harada², Tsuyoshi Nakamaki¹ (1.Division of Hematology, Showa University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan, 2.Division of Hematology, Showa University Fujigaoka Hospital, Kanagawa, Japan)