The Importance of Bone Marrow Biopsies

Anon: You mentioned some clear cut etiologies that would sway you away from a bone marrow biopsy. What diseases or processes are on your differential? And would the results of kind of the workup for that be fast enough to even, like, I think oftentimes we're just like, go for the bone marrow while we work up everything else. Emma: The things that very quickly, so critical illness. Nutritional deficiencies. Copper deficiency can do the same but is exceedingly rare in the absence of someone that has had gastric bypass surgery.