A postal survey of adverse events associated with bone marrow biopsy (aspiration biopsy with or without trephine biopsy) was carried out among British Society of Haematology members, between 1995 and 2001. A total of 26 adverse events, including one death directly attributable to the procedure, were reported among an estimated 54 890 biopsies. The most frequent and most serious adverse event wa...

Many congenital and acquired bone marrow disorders have been described in dogs. Major categories include infectious diseases, immune-mediated bone marrow destruction, toxic marrow injury, congenital and acquired myelodysplastic syndromes, acute and chronic myeloproliferative and lymphoproliferative disorders, primary polycythemia, primary and secondary myelofibrosis, malignant histiocytosis, he...

Bone marrow biopsies (244) performed with a Jamshidi needle were evaluated in 53 children with leukemia or aplastic anemia. Adequate specimens were obtained in 85%. Results of cellularity estimated by biopsy were compared to the cellularity of the aspirate versus volumetric determination of the myeloid-erythroid layer (buffy coat). A wide discrepancy was noted between marrow cellularity confirm...

BACKGROUND Primary hyperoxaluria is a rare disease with an estimated prevalence of 1 to 3 cases per million. It is due to a hepatic enzyme deficiency responsible for an endogenous overproduction of oxalate. Oxalate crystals commonly deposit in the kidney and more rarely in bone marrow. The literature has reported, to the best of our knowledge, only two cases of hyperoxaluria diagnosed by bone m...

The purpose of our study was to determine the value of different hybrid imaging combinations for the detection of focal and diffuse bone marrow infiltration in lymphoma. Patients with histologically proven lymphoma, who underwent both [18F]-FDG-PET/CT and whole-body MRI (including T1- and diffusion-weighted [DWI] sequences) within seven days, and a subsequent bone marrow biopsy, were retrospect...

Cutaneous presentation revealing acute myeloid leukemia (AML) is rare, and the prognosis poor. We report a case of an 11-month-old male who presented with cutaneous lesions present as diffuse purplish papulo-nodular lesions, M5 leukemia. Skin biopsy immunohistochemical examination, combined routine blood analysis bone marrow contributed to early diagnosis. However, despite intensive chemotherap...