ArticleThe Pan African medical journal2020
Professional accountability in a sternal bone marrow aspiration: a forensic case report.
Article in The Pan African medical journal, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.
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- Simulation-based Bone Marrow Aspiration and Trephine Biopsy Education for Medical Students: A Non-randomized Controlled Trial.Internal medicine (Tokyo, Japan) · 2025Article
- [Sternal bone marrow cell morphology evaluation utility for diagnostic categorization in patients with acquired hypocellular bone marrow failure syndromes].Zhonghua xue ye xue za zhi = Zhonghua xueyexue zazhi · 2022Article
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Abstract
An aortic injury with concomitant pericardial tamponade caused by sternal bone marrow aspiration is rare. We report a case of fatal sternal bone marrow aspiration performed to a 73 year old man for the purpose of confirming the diagnosis of multiple myeloma. This puncture was followed by an injury in the aorta causing a pericardial tamponade and the death of the patient immediately after the aspiration. This paper stresses the precautions to be taken, by the operator, in certain particular situations that make the sternal bone marrow aspiration difficult and risky, and discusses the different types of operator´s liability that can be involved and their foundations.
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