Bone Marrow

The intentions of this manual are to familiarize beginners with the process of bone marrow evaluation, to provide a succinct preparatory review of bone marrow pathology for the pathology and clinical hematology board examinations, to remediate practitioners whose knowledge of this field is not current, and to strengthen the skills of clinicians who

Daniel A. Cherry MD is Medical Director of Laboratory Services for Trident Health System and is a Senior Partner of Lowcountry Pathology Associates in Charleston, South Carolina. His main interests are bone marrow pathology, surgical pathology and transfusion medicine. Tomislav M. Jelic, MD, PhD is a staff pathologist and hematopathologist in the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Charleston Area Medical Center, Charleston, West Virginia and a Clinical Assistant Professor at the Robert C. Byrd Health Sciences Center, West Virginia University School of Medicine. His main interests include hematopathology and molecular pathology.

1. Bone Marrow Basies 2. Special Studies 3. Myelodysplastic Syndromes 4. Myeloproliferative Neoplasms 5. Myelodysplastic/Myeloproliferative Neoplasms 6. Myeloid Neoplasms with Eosinophilia with Abnormalities of PDGFRA, PDGFRB or FGFR1 7. Acute Myeloid Leukemia 8. Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia 9. Mature B, T and NK Cell Neoplasms 10. Plasma Cell Disorders 11. Examination of the Bone Marrow for Lymphoma 12. Evaluation of the Bone Marrow for Cytopenias