A small amount of bone marrow is removed during a bone marrow
aspiration. The procedure is quick but uncomfortable, and is
generally well-tolerated by both children and adults. The marrow
can be studied to determine the cause of anemia, the presence of
leukemia or other malignancies, or the presence of some "storage
diseases," in which abnormal metabolic products are stored in
certain bone marrow cells.
Review Date: 03/10/2011
Reviewed By: Harvey Simon, MD, Editor-in-Chief, Associate Professor of Medicine,
Harvard Medical School; Physician, Massachusetts General Hospital.
A.D.A.M., Inc. is accredited by URAC, also known as the American Accreditation HealthCare Commission (www.urac.org)
