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If there is a dry tap on a bone marrow aspirate, is it okay to just send peripheral slides?

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If there is a dry tap on a bone marrow aspirate, is it okay to just send peripheral slides?

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Touch preps can be made from the bone plug. This gives the pathologist an idea what is going on within the marrow. If there is no marrow or no touch preps, then the peripheral blood smears are of little value to the pathologists to classify the type of leukemia!