The sample is placed in tissue fixative and submitted with a bone marrow aspirate and a peripheral blood smear. A bone marrow core biopsy is a more qualitative test used for animals that require ...

Wright–Giemsa staining of a bone marrow–aspirate smear shows rare clusters of carcinoma cells with scant cytoplasm, fine chromatin, and nuclear molding (Panel D). The peripheral-blood smear ...

A hematologist will also look at the blood sample under a microscope in a test called a blood smear ... removing a small piece of the bone along with the marrow inside the bone. The second sample is ...