They can be performed at your doctor's office or in a hospital clinic.

In each case the bone marrow obtained from three sites — the sternum, the iliac crest and the spinous process — showed definite hypoplasia and no leukemic infiltration.

Most studies reporting meralgia paresthetica as a complication of iliac crest bone grafting suggest that the symptoms improve with occasional nerve blocks, analgesics, and desensitization.

Twenty patients with HRPC had bone marrow aspirate and trephines taken from lesions in the posterior superior iliac spine or sacro-iliac region when shown on diagnostic 99mTc-HDP bone scans.