Chapter 4 Aplastic Anemia
Table 4-1 Differential Diagnosis of Pancytopenia
Pancytopenia With Hypocellular Bone Marrow |
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Pancytopenia With Cellular Bone Marrow |
Hypocellular Bone Marrow ± Cytopenia |
*Pancytopenia in tuberculosis only rarely is associated with a hypocellular bone marrow at biopsy or autopsy. Marrow failure in the setting of tuberculosis is almost always fatal; exceptional patients probably had underlying myelodysplasia or acute leukemia.
Table 4-2 A Classification of Aplastic Anemia