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Bone Marrow Biopsy

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You typically have a bone marrow biopsy as an outpatient. This implies you go dwelling the identical day. Procedures could differ relying in your situation and your healthcare supplier’s practices.

A bone marrow biopsy is usually carried out utilizing a pelvic bone. In some circumstances, one other bone, such because the breastbone could also be used. In a toddler, a leg bone, or a bone within the backbone (vertebra) could also be used.

  • You might be requested to take away clothes and should be given a robe to put on.

  • Your place could differ relying on the bone that’s used. You might be requested to lie in your facet or your abdomen if the pelvic bone is used.

  • Through the process, you will have to lie as nonetheless as attainable.

  • The pores and skin over the biopsy website might be cleaned with a sterile (antiseptic) answer.

  • You’ll really feel a needle stick and a quick sting because the healthcare supplier injects a neighborhood anesthetic to numb the world.

  • The supplier could make a small reduce (incision) over the biopsy website. The biopsy needle might be put by the bone and into the bone marrow.

  • A bone marrow aspiration is usually carried out first. The supplier will use a syringe to tug a small liquid pattern of the bone marrow cells by the needle. It’s common to really feel stress because the needle is pressed into your bone. You should have a pulling feeling when the marrow is eliminated.

  • The supplier will take away a small, stable piece of bone marrow utilizing a particular hole needle. That is referred to as a core biopsy.

  • The biopsy needle might be eliminated. Agency stress might be placed on the biopsy website for a couple of minutes, till the bleeding has stopped.

  • A sterile bandage or dressing might be utilized.

  • The bone marrow samples might be despatched to the lab for examination.