Bone marrow biopsy is a term used to describe a surgical procedure in which a small portion of bone marrow is extracted from the inside of the bones to be examined under a microscope. A bone ...

The equipment necessary for this procedure includes sterile gloves ... marrow aspirate and a peripheral blood smear. A bone marrow core biopsy is a more qualitative test used for animals that ...

To obtain longitudinal data on bone formation, however, the double-labeling and biopsy procedures must be repeated. Here, Lindsay et al. report a novel quadruple-labeling procedure, which allows ...

Using this method, clinicians do not need to perform a bone marrow biopsy, which is easier on the patients. However, bone marrow biopsies are still likely useful at the beginning to validate the ...