Bone marrow trephine biopsy in infants
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- 1 July 1997
- journal article
- research article
- Published by BMJ in Archives of Disease in Childhood
- Vol. 77 (1) , 60-61
- https://doi.org/10.1136/adc.77.1.60
Abstract
Central review of bone marrow trephine biopsies obtained between January 1990 and July 1996 from 282 children with neuroblastoma showed that 18% of cores from older children and an unacceptably high 36% from infants were inadequate (p = 0.0002). Centres should choose their operators for this invasive investigation of infants with more care in order to reduce the failure rate.Keywords
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