OBJECTIVE To determine the frequency of bone marrow involvement in patients of Hodgkin's lymphoma on first presentation at oncology department. STUDY DESIGN Case series. PLACE AND DURATION OF STUDY The Oncology Department, Combined Military Hospital, Rawalpindi, from April 2006 to February 2007. METHODOLOGY Thirty five patients of Hodgkin's lymphoma diagnosed on lymph node biopsy presenti...

Correspondence: Dr. Pierangelo Spedini, Divisione di Medicina II, sezione di Ematologia, Istituti Ospitalieri di Cremona, viale Concordia 1, 26100 Cremona, Italy. A71-year old man was referred to our hospital because of osteolysis of the right femur. Two weeks before admission he had developed pain, swelling and functio laesa of his right hip. Bone biopsy showed a lymphoid infiltrate, not furth...

We prospectively evaluated the percutaneous injection of autogenous bone marrow for the treatment of active simple bone cysts in ten consecutive children with cysts in the proximal humerus, proximal femur or tibia. The treatment included percutaneous biopsy, aspiration of fluid and the injection of autogenous bone marrow aspirated from the iliac crest. All the patients became painfree after a m...

PURPOSE/OBJECTIVES To describe the role of the oncology nurse practitioner in the performance of bone marrow aspiration and biopsy and discuss the indications and diagnostic value of bone marrow examination. DATA SOURCES Published articles, textbooks, personal experience. DATA SYNTHESIS Bone marrow examination is useful in the diagnosis of many nonhematologic and hematologic conditions. Hav...

Bone marrow examination is a useful and cost effective diagnostic procedure in haematological practice for the diagnosis of both neoplastic and non-neoplastic haematological diseases. These procedures are also employed for typing of anaemias, evaluation of cytopenias and pyrexia of unknown origin. The bone marrow examination may either confirm the clinically suspected disease or may provide the...

Bone marrow necrosis (BMN) is defined as necrosis of the myeloid tissues and stroma without involvement of the cortical bone. We report a case of 66-year-old male with AML-M4 (FAB classification) who was given induction chemotherapy with cytarabine and daunorubicin. Filgrastim at 480 micrograms was administered on days 15-19 to shorten the duration of neutropenia. Consequently patient developed...

The presence of cells positive for cytokeratins or prostate-specific antigen (PSA) in bone marrow aspirates (BMAs) has been used to indicate the presence of micrometastasis. The aim of this prospective study of prostate cancer patients was to determine the presence of prostate cells in blood and BMAs and to compare them with bone marrow biopsy touch prep samples. The results indicated that ther...

Objective: Dry tap is usually defined as a “failure to obtain bone marrow on attempted marrow aspiration”. The diagnosis and management of many haematological diseases depends on examination of the bone marrow, which involves two separate specimens i.e. a cytologic and a histologic preparation. The purpose of this study was to document the causes of dry tap and importance of bone marrow biopsy....