Bone marrow aspiration, biopsy, and culture in the evaluation of HIV-infected patients for invasive mycobacteria and histoplasma infections

Utility of bone marrow culture and biops

Utility of bone marrow culture and biopsy in the diagnosis of disseminated infections in AIDS

✍ Keiser, Philip; Rademacher, Steven; Smith, James W. 📂 Article 📅 1997 🏛 John Wiley and Sons 🌐 English ⚖ 23 KB 👁 1 views

Bone marrow examination (BME) has been used as a diagnostic test of last resort in HIV infected patients. Identifying factors that would increase the diagnostic yield of BME would be useful. A retrospective cohort study was done to determine the predictive value of BME for disseminated infection in