Bone marrow aspiration is short for bone marrow aspiration, which is usually performed once to confirm the diagnosis of leukemia, with a few cases requiring a second procedure.
Bone marrow aspiration is usually performed in the iliac bone of a suspected leukemia patient to extract a sufficient amount of bone marrow samples from the patient, and then laboratory tests can be performed to determine whether the patient has leukemia or not, and to understand the typing and characteristics of the leukemia cells, so as to complete the preliminary diagnosis and provide a reliable basis for determining the diagnosis and treatment plan for the next step.
Usually, bone marrow aspiration is performed to confirm the diagnosis and typing of leukemia, so most people can have it done once, but there are a few people who do not have enough samples, failed aspiration, diluted bone marrow, etc., so they need to have a second bone marrow aspiration.