@article{Tashfeen_Asif_Nasir_Azam_Irshad_2021, title={HAEMATOLOGICAL DISORDERS DIAGNOSED IN ONE HUNDRED AND ONE SUCCESSIVE BONE MARROW EXAMINATION AT A TERTIARY CARE CENTRE IN QUETTA, BALOCHISTAN}, volume={71}, url={https://www.pafmj.org/PAFMJ/article/view/3349}, DOI={10.51253/pafmj.v71i2.3349}, abstractNote={<p><strong>Objective:</strong> To determine the frequency of haematological disorders diagnosed by bone marrow examination at a tertiary care centre in Quetta, Balochistan.</p> <p><strong>Study Design:</strong> Prospective observational study.</p> <p><strong>Place and Duration of Study:</strong> Department of Pathology, Combined Military Hospital Quetta, from Jan 2018 to May 2019.</p> <p><strong>Methodology:</strong> A total of 101 one patients, who underwent bone marrow examination, were included in the study. Brief history, clinical examination and indication of procedure were also endorsed in a questionnaire designed for the study.</p> <p><strong>Results:</strong> Bone marrow of one hundred and one patients, included in the study, were evaluated. Mean age of the patients was 32.3 ± 18.4 years. There were 68 males (67%), while 33 were females (33%) with 2:1 male to female ratio. Pyrexia of unknown origin (PUO) was the most common indication for bone marrow examination with frequency of 20.7%. Nutritional anaemia was the most prevalent benign disorder (17%), whereas Acute Lymphoblastic leukaemia (ALL) accounted about 6.8% which is highest in malignant disorders.</p> <p><strong>Conclusion:</strong> This study has concluded that bone marrow examination is a useful technique and findings of bone marrow can modify the treatment. Thus procedure has a great diagnostic value. Both bone marrow aspiration (BMA) and bone marrow biopsy (BMB) are the complimentary techniques and supremacy of one method on other depends on the disorder.</p>}, number={2}, journal={Pakistan Armed Forces Medical Journal}, author={Tashfeen, Sunila and Asif, Naveed and Nasir, Shafia and Azam, Muhammad and Irshad, Zareen}, year={2021}, month={Apr.}, pages={672–75} }