Other Blood Diseases

Myelofibrosis

• CBC and platelets
• Bone marrow biopsy and aspiration (see above). The aspiration looks at the cells; the biopsy looks at the structure of the bone marrow to detect the scar tissue or fibrosis.

Myelodysplastic Syndromes

• CBC and platelets
• Bone marrow aspiration and biopsy
• Chromosomal analysis of bone marrow

Essential Thrombocythemia and Polycythemia Vera

• CBC and platelets
• Bone marrow aspiration and biopsy

Waldenstrom's Macroglobulinemia

• CBC
• Bone marrow aspriation and biopsy
• Immunoelectrophoresis