replacement of the bone marrow by fibrous tissue, occurring in association with a myeloproliferative disorder or secondary to another unrelated condition.
A disorder in which the bone marrow is replaced by fibrous tissue.
A partial or complete replacement of the bone marrow stroma by fibrous tissue. It can be a primary bone marrow lesion as part of the chronic myeloproliferative disorders (chronic idiopathic myelofibrosis), a manifestation of acute myeloid leukemia (acute panmyelosis with myelofibrosis), or a secondary phenomenon due to bone marrow involvement by a metastatic tumor (e.g., metastatic breast carcinoma). --2003
Also applicable to/known as
Aleukemic leukemia:
granulocytic
myelogenous
myeloid
Aleukemic myelosis
ICD-9-CM Volume 2 Index Entries That Refer To 205.8
2008 ICD-9-CM Diagnosis Code 205.8
205.8