0 soft tissue containing a lot of fat in the centre of a bone --
1 a long round vegetable with a thick green or yellow skin, white flesh, and a lot of seeds at its centre. Marrows are a type of squash. --
2 the soft, fatty tissue in the center of bones --
Most patients die from bleeding or infection due to marrow failure.
However, eventual relapse and/or progression is inevitable, and is usually associated with marrow failure and increasing therapy resistance.
Weekly blood counts are required because of concerns about bone marrow suppression.
Low-grade cases are those with less than 5% bone marrow blasts, together with a cytopenia of one lineage and a normal karyotype.
In addition, despite the cytopenias, the bone marrow is often normocellular or even hypercellular.
Anecdotal observations have been made of autoimmune disease remission in patients who have undergone allogeneic bone marrow transplantation as a result of coincidental haematological malignancies.
One possibility i s that the synovial membrane is gradually repopulated with immature mesenchymal and bone marrow cells with altered properties.
The terms designate the same thing: a small, green, elongated vegetable marrow (or summer squash, if you prefer).
