Study of Spectrum of Lesions in Bone Marrow Aspiration and Trephine Biopsy from a Tertiary Care Centre in South India

The Role of Bone Marrow Aspiration and Bone Marrow Biopsy in Diagnosis of Bone Marrow Metastases

Background: Bone marrow is the site of many malignant disorders and it is one of the common places for solid tumors to metastasize. Examination of the bone marrow aspirate and biopsy is a routine procedure performed for assessment of various conditions such as cytopenias, hematologic neoplasms, nonmalignant disorders and metastatic neoplasms. Methods: The patients were referred to the Hema...

Bone-marrow aspiration and trephine biopsy.

Ketamine for bone marrow aspiration and trephine biopsy in children.

To make bone marrow aspiration and trephine biopsy less painful and more acceptable in children a short acting anaesthetic ketamine was used in a dose of 1-2 mg/kg body weight intravenously or 4-5 mg/kg intramuscularly. One hundred cases aged 2 to 13 years were studied. The actual procedure time ranged between 20 seconds and 3 minutes, adequate samples were obtained in 80% of children on first ...

Histopathological spectrum of gastrointestinal lesions - an experience in a tertiary care centre in South India

Gastrointestinal biopsies constitute a major group of specimens received in the surgical pathology department in a tertiary care hospital. This includes endoscopic biopsies from gastric and duodenal mucosa, appendicectomies, cholecystectomies and colonoscopic biopsies, colectomies etc. 1 This study aims at identifying the different histopathological lesions in these specimens. Endoscopy and col...

Comparison of bone marrow aspiration cytology with bone marrow trephine biopsy histopathology: An observational study

INTRODUCTION Bone marrow examination is a useful investigative tool for the diagnosis of many hematological and nonhematological disorders. Bone marrow aspiration (BMA) provides information about the numerical and cytological features of marrow cells, whereas bone marrow trephine biopsies (BMB) provide excellent appreciation of spatial relationships between cells and of overall bone marrow stru...