Pre-fibrotic phase: hypercellular BM with minimal reticulin. Reticulin: is fibrous connective tissue. A single multipotential stem cell abnormal. can cause all blast, neutrophils, basophils, megakaryocyte abnromal--- granulocytosis, thrombocytosis, anemia. nRBC, tear drops, giant plts, immature granulocyes but low in numbers.