Abstract

Objective To compare the advantages and disadvantages of smear immunohistochemistry and biopsy of bone marrow in the detection of non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL) infiltration. Methods 60 newly diagnosed patients with NHL were collected. Smear immunohistochemistry and biopsy of bone marrow were applied to detect bone marrow involvement in those patients. The relations between the results of two detection methods and the relevant clinical characteristics, such as age, blood routine examination, lactic dehydrogenase, extensive infiltration, B symptom, performance status, clinical stage and so on were analyzed. Results Positive rate of bone marrow involvement in bone marrow smear immunohistochemistry group was higher than that in bone marrow biopsy group [10.0 % (6/60) vs. 3.3 % (2/60), P=0.008]. When detection on B cell infiltration, positive rates were 6.6 % (4/60) and 3.3 % (2/60) in smear immunohisto chemistry group and biopsy group, respectively (P=0.007), and when detection on T cell infiltration, the positive rates were 3.3 % (2/60) and 0 (0/60), respectively. Furthermore, two detection method was not correlated with related clinical characteristics, such as bone marrow biopsy, immunohistochemistry, gender, age, Karnofsky score, B symptom, extranodal involvement, lactic dehydrogenase, thrombocyte, Hb, neutrophils, lymphocyte and staging (all P>0.05). Conclusions The positive rate of bone marrow smear immunohistochemistry is superior to bone marrow biopsy in the detection of bone marrow involvement of NHL. As for the immunophenotyping of NHL, sensitive rate of bone marrow smear immunohistochemistry is also better than that of bone marrow biopsy. Key words: Lymphoma, non-Hodgkin; Bone marrow; Tumor-infiltrating; Immunohistochemistry; Biopsy

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