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ajlm-1028	Tshabalala, Wanda S.; Pillay, Somasundram; Wilson, Doughlas P.K.	Diagnostic outcomes of bone marrow aspirate and trephine biopsies performed at a hospital in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa	2020		.htm	text/html	4059	206	49	PET scanning has been recommended in the literature as a superior staging modality for bone marrow involvement in lymphoma sufferers.26 Medical literature has documented the limitations of bone marrow examination in patients with aggressive DLBCL and early lymphoma.26 Other studies suggest that PET/CT scanning is more useful in assessing the involvement of the bone marrow.26,27 Improved access to PET/CT scanning would reduce the frequencies of bone marrow examinations in lymphoma sufferers, as most studies suggest that it should be considered as a first-line examination of bone marrow in lymphoma patients.26,27 Bone marrow infiltration in DLBCL can easily be missed as most DLBCL infiltration are focal rather than diffuse.26 PET/CT has a much more superior sensitivity (94% vs. 24%) and a higher negative predictive value (98% vs. 80%) when compared to a bone marrow examination.27 In our study there was only one case reported as nutritional deficiency and that was megaloblastic anaemia due to folate deficiency. The main indications for bone marrow examination were: cytopenias 38 (32%), lymphoma 35 (29%), leukaemia 21 (18%), and multiple myeloma 17 (14%).	cache/ajlm-1028.htm	txt/ajlm-1028.txt