Microfilariae in bone marrow aspiration smears, correlation with marrow hypoplasia: a report of six cases.
Microfilariae have been reported in various cytological preparations, however there are very few case reports describing microfilariae in bone marrow aspirates. We report six such cases with the interesting finding of marrow hypoplasia in five of these cases.
Sharma
Seema
S
Department of Pathology, Sanjay Gandhi Postgraduate Institute of Medical Sciences, Lucknow 226014. ssharma@sgpgi.ac.in
Rawat
Amit
A
Chowhan
Amit
A
D000328:Adult; D000818:Animals; D001707:Biopsy, Needle; D001853:Bone Marrow / Q000469:parasitology* / Q000473:pathology*; D001856:Bone Marrow Examination; D003581:Cytodiagnosis; D005368:Filariasis / Q000150:complications*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008842:Microfilariae / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D009190:Myelodysplastic Syndromes / Q000150:complications*; D014958:Wuchereria bancrofti / Q000302:isolation & purification*