BONE-MARROW TREPHINE BIOPSY IN INFANTS

Authors
REID MM ROALD B
Citation
Mm. Reid et B. Roald, BONE-MARROW TREPHINE BIOPSY IN INFANTS, Archives of Disease in Childhood, 77(1), 1997, pp. 60-61
Citations number
3
Categorie Soggetti
Pediatrics
Journal title
Archives of Disease in Childhood → ACNP
ISSN journal
00039888
Volume
77
Issue
1
Year of publication
1997
Pages
60 - 61
Database
ISI
SICI code
0003-9888(1997)77:1<60:BTBII>2.0.ZU;2-N
Abstract
Central review of bone marrow trephine biopsies obtained between Janua ry 1990 and July 1996 from 282 children with neuroblastoma showed that 18% of cores from older children and an unacceptably high 36% from in fants were inadequate (p = 0.0002). Centres should choose their operat ors for this invasive investigation of infants with more care in order to reduce the failure rate.