Case Report: Pitfalls in bone marrow evaluation: importance of adequate bone marrow sampling

Alireza Ghezavati1, Elham Vali Betts1, Ananya Datta Mitra1

  • 1Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of California Davis, Sacramento, CA, United States.

Frontiers in Oncology
|December 8, 2025
PubMed
Summary

Bone marrow evaluation is crucial but prone to errors from sampling, processing, and interpretation. This study highlights common pitfalls and strategies, including immunohistochemistry (IHC), to improve diagnostic accuracy in bone marrow analysis.