In bone marrow, mastocytosis mast cells may have cytoplasmic extensions such as spindles or fusiform shapes, oval nuclei with excentric positioning, and/or hypogranulated cytoplasm with focal ...

Systemic mastocytosis happens when a type of white blood cell called mast cells builds up too much in the body's tissues.

Systemic mastocytosis involves mast cell accumulation in the bone marrow and internal organs, such as the gastrointestinal tract, lymph nodes, skin, spleen, or liver. This type is more common in ...

Of 135 women beyond fifty years of age who were evaluated for levels of bone density, those with a normal or only a minimally decreased bone density had the highest number of normal bone-marrow ...

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Sudipto Mukherjee, MD, PhD, MPH, of Cleveland Clinic, describes the steps clinicians should take when they encounter clinical abnormalities that may point to systemic mastocytosis. (1:48 ...

What Are Blood and Bone Marrow Cancers? Bone marrow cancer is a form of cancer that starts in the spongy tissue -- the marrow -- inside your bones. Marrow’s main job is to make blood cells.

Bone marrow is a soft, spongy material inside your bones where blood cells are made. These blood cells are important for a healthy immune system. (Photo Credit: Wendy Hiller Gee/Eric Olson/WebMD ...

DNA testing on skeletal remains found in a car pulled from an Illinois river confirmed they are those of two men who vanished in 1976 after leaving a farm auction, authorities said. Testing ...

Opens in a new tab or window An analysis of registry data concluded that hypersensitivity reactions in patients with mastocytosis are caused by exposure to certain triggers, including low tryptase ...

Chemotherapy (aggressive systemic mastocytosis). Local radiation for bone pain. Low-dose aspirin is helpful in some patients, because it causes continuous degranulation and prevents extreme peaks ...