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REPORT OF A CASE WITH SPLENECTOMY

WALTER BLAIR STEWART, M.D.

Am J Dis Child. 1927;34(1):72-80.

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Evidence accumulated in many clinics by different observers has established beyond peradventure the existence of sickle cell anemia as a distinct clinical entity. Although the condition was first recognized by Herrick and reported as early as 1910,¹ the relatively high morbidity among negroes was not suspected prior to the reports of Huck² and Sydenstricker³ in 1923. The latter found sickle cells in the blood of 0.6 per cent of a large number of negroes examined. More recently Cooley and Lee⁴ examined all negroes admitted to their clinic during a period of ten months, 400 patients, and found sickle cells in 30 of them, that is, in 7.5 per cent. Such an unexpectedly high incidence should challenge one to a clearer knowledge and more ready recognition of this condition.

Sickle cells are red blood corpuscles which have assumed unusual shapes through some influence, probably a perversion of . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
ATLANTIC CITY, N. J.

From the Department of Pediatrics, School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, and the Pediatric Service, University Hospital.

Footnotes
Received for publication, Jan. 5, 1927

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