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Bone Marrow Involvement in Neuroblastoma: A Study of Hemato-morphological Features

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Bone marrow involvement in neuroblastoma indicates advanced stage of disease. The recent use of autologous bone marrow “rescue”, has provided an additional important reason for accurate assessment of bone marrow status in newly diagnosed patients. In this study, we analyzed 44 cases of neuroblastoma for bone marrow infiltration status and their hematological parameters. Eighty-eight bone marrow aspirate and trephine touch imprint smears and 44 trephine biopsy sections were examined in these 44 patients. Of these, 24 cases (54.5 %) showed marrow infiltration. Leucopenia and bicytopenia were significantly (p < 0.05) associated with marrow infiltration. Both bone marrow aspirate and biopsy were positive for infiltration in 16 out of 24 positive cases. Only aspirate smears were positive in 4 and only trephine biopsy in another 4 cases. The pattern of infiltration consisted of rosette formation in 40.7 % cases on aspirate smears and 22.2 % cases in trephine biopsies. Remaining cases showed diffuse and interstitial presence of tumor cells and cases positive only on trephine biopsy, showed marked stromal reaction. Bilateral trephine biopsies combined with aspirate smears picked up all positive cases compared to when they were assessed alone.

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  1. Department of Pathology, Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, India

    Pulkit Rastogi

  2. Department of Hematology, Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, India

    Shano Naseem, Neelam Varma, Reena Das, Jasmina Ahluwalia, Man Updesh Singh Sachdeva, Prashant Sharma & Narender Kumar

  3. Department of Pediatrics, Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, India

    Ram Kumar Marwaha

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Rastogi, P., Naseem, S., Varma, N. et al. Bone Marrow Involvement in Neuroblastoma: A Study of Hemato-morphological Features. Indian J Hematol Blood Transfus 31, 57–60 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12288-014-0405-1

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