Once in a Blue Moon, the Bone Marrow Aspiration and Biopsy Has Clinical Impact for Gastric Mucosa-Associated Lymphoid Tissue Lymphoma
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The indolent and favorable clinical course of extranodal B cell lymphoma of mucosa-associated lymphoid tissue type (MALT lymphoma) of stomach is well known. For both physician and patient, one of the most fearful parts for gastric MALT lymphoma must be the bone marrow aspiration and biopsy (BMAB) rather than the disease itself. Guidelines from authorities still does not reach to a concurrence on the role of BMAB in the initial staging work-up of gastric MALT lymphoma (Table 1). National Comprehensive Cancer Network and European GastroIntestinal Lymphoma Study state BMAB “useful in selected
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