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Bone biopsy

Bone marrow aspiration

Biopsy - bone marrow

The marrow has normal cells that are the correct types and numbers.

The results may indicate cancers of the bone marrow (leukemia or Hodgkin's disease). The results may detect the cause of anemia (too few red blood cells), abnormal white blood cells, or thrombocytopenia (too few platelets).

Additional conditions under which the test may be performed:

• Coccidioidomycosis; disseminated
• Hairy cell leukemia
• Hodgkin's lymphoma
• Idiopathic aplastic anemia
• Multiple myeloma
• Neuroblastoma
• Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma
• Polycythemia vera
• Primary amyloid
• Primary myelofibrosis
• Primary thrombocythemia
• Secondary aplastic anemia
• Secondary systemic amyloid

Review Date: 02/01/2005
Reviewed By: Rita Nanda, M.D., Department of Hematology/Oncology, University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL. Review provided by VeriMed Healthcare Network.