endogenous erythroid colonies

A form of endogenous erythroid colony — A diagnostic laboratory finding where erythroid progenitor cells from a patient’s bone marrow or peripheral blood grow into colonies in vitro without the addition of exogenous erythropoietin, used as a marker of abnormal stem cell behavior.

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