A one year prospective study covering the year 2001 was conducted in the department of pathology
Goverment medical college Srinagar Kashmir india The bone marrow smears were routinely stain and Perl"s reaction periodic acid schiff and sudam black stain were used as and when required of the 318 bone marrow simples studied during the year 2001 eight cases contain metastatic deposits All of the patients in our present study had pallor (anaemia) as one of the main symptoms and underwent bone marrow aspiration to determine which type of aneamia they were suffering from In patients with metastatic deposites the normal haemopoietic cells