Voorbeelden van bone marrow

• One concerns the management of a patient who developed a fever following a bone marrow transplant.

• Volunteering children for bone marrow donation: children's views should have been represented in discussion.

• In this overview we provide a brief summary of the prognostic role and the potential clinical utility of bone marrow micrometastases in breast cancer patients.

• To do this, gene transfer is used to achieve high-level expression of specific drug-resistance factors in bone marrow.

• Interestingly, a coincidence of isolated tumour cells in bone marrow and lymph nodes was found in only two patients.

• The definitive test for determining iron deficiency still remains the examination of the bone marrow aspirate for iron content.

• The latest assessment project in bone marrow transplantation was the use of autologous bone marrow (or peripheral stem cell infusion) for breast cancer.

• Most child donors give bone marrow to siblings or parents, and this introduces further complications.