title: [Hematological and clinical manifestations of bone marrow metastasis of carcinomas. Apropos of 36 cases verified by biopsy].
abstract: A retrospective study of 36 cases of bone marrow metastases from carcinoma is reported. In all cases, the presence of tumour cells was confirmed by needle biopsy of the bone marrow. The clinical picture was fairly typical: decline in general health, fever, bony pain and skin and mucosal hemorrhages. Radiological lesions of the skeleton were present in 64% of cases. Sometimes the blood disorders were isolated. Anemia was almost constant (86), normochromic, normocytic, and may be associated with leukocytosis and thrombopenia. Pancytopenia is rarer as also is a rise in the number of platelets. Erythremia, very suggestive, is demonstrated in 73% of the blood smears. In 31% of the slides examined again, schizocytes were found among the normal red cells. Disorders of hemostasis were easily circumscribed. As fibrinolysis was sometime found, hemostasis was studied as a routine in all patients. The special recruitment of a hematology unit explains the high frequency of blood abnormalities in this series of bone metastases.
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D001772:Blood Cell Count; D001792:Blood Platelets; D001853:Bone Marrow / Q000473:pathology*; D001855:Bone Marrow Diseases / Q000097:blood / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology; D001859:Bone Neoplasms / Q000097:blood / Q000175:diagnosis*; D005260:Female; D006402:Hematologic Diseases / Q000209:etiology*; D006454:Hemoglobins / Q000032:analysis; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009362:Neoplasm Metastasis
chemical_list: D006454:Hemoglobins
vernacular_title: Manifestations cliniques et hématologiques des métastases médullaires des carcinomes. A propos de 36 cas prouvés par biopsie.