Bone marrow metastasis in solid tumors: a retrospective study

This procedure is also used for determining the bone marrow metastasis in patients with solid tumors. The aim of this study was to observe clinical, laboratory, and pathological findings in patients with bone marrow metastases of solid tumours (n = 10). Bone marrow metastasis were found in 10 cases. 4 patients were in paediatric age group and 6 were adults. All the 4 paediatric cases had metastatic deposits from neuroblastoma. In the adult patients 3 cases had metastatic deposits from carcinoma lung, 1 each fromcarcinoma breast, carcinoma prostate and carcinoma colon. Anemia was the commonest clinical presentation seen in 4 out of 10 cases. Associated complaint of fever was present in 5 out of 10 patients, low backache in 2 patients and malaise in 3 patients.