Pancytopenia--a clinico-hematologic analysis of 77 cases.
The present study was conducted in the department of Haematology and Transfusion Medicine, Government Medical College & Hospital, Chandigarh over a period of 32 months. During this period pancytopenia was an indication for bone marrow (aspiration and or trephine) in 77 out of a total of 205 cases (37.6%). The most common cause of pancytopenia as revealed by bone marrow was megaloblastic anaemia (68%) followed by aplastic anaemia (7.70%). This study also revealed few uncommon and rare, but interesting causes of pancytopenia like drug induced agranulocytosis, hemophagocytic syndrome and waldenstroms macroglobinemia.
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Department of Pathology J.N. Medical College, Aligarh.
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D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000741:Anemia, Aplastic / Q000150:complications*; D000749:Anemia, Megaloblastic / Q000150:complications*; D001856:Bone Marrow Examination / Q000379:methods; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D010198:Pancytopenia / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology