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REPORT OF A CASE WITH RECOVERY FOLLOWING ROENTGENOTHERAPY, WITH A REVIEW OF THE LITERATURE

ALFRED H. WASHBURN, M.D.

Am J Dis Child. 1930;39(2):330-348.

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In 1893, George Dock¹ published his first report of a case of chloroma. At this time, he was able to find reports of only sixteen similar cases in the literature, the first one being by Burns² in 1823. As Dock pointed out in his most interesting report, it was von Reckling-hausen, in 1885, who first suggested the close relationship between chloroma and leukemia. In 1904, Dock and Warthin³ summarized twenty-one cases reported in the literature from 1893 to 1904. They found the following important facts: (1) males were affected more frequently than females; (2) the ages of the patients ranged from 10 months to 52 years, with a majority in early life; (3) the duration of the disease varied from one to eighteen months; (4) the head was affected in all but two cases, and (5) the marrow of the long bones was involved in seven of . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
SAN FRANCISCO

From the Department of Pediatrics, University of California Medical School.

Footnotes
Submitted for publication, Sept. 30, 1929.

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