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I. NEWTON KUGELMASS, M.D.

Am J Dis Child. 1932;44(1):50-68.

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Hemophilia, a clinical chimera for many a bleeding problem, is too rare a condition to cover so many hemorrhagic disturbances, is too hereditary a disease to include so many mature bleeders, is too well defined a disease entity to become a haphazard label of hemorrhagic confusion. A solitary hemorrhage for the first time requires that every local cause be excluded before a diagnosis of hemophilia is ventured. Profuse hemorrhage at birth¹ is varied in origin unless inheritance makes hemophilia a consideration. A prolonged clotting time alone is never pathognomonic of hemophilia. Such common correlations with hemophilia have confused the literature to such an extent that Bulloch and Fildes² of the London Eugenic Laboratory have been able to authenticate only 44 hemophilic families of 273 reported in a century of literature.

Hemophilia is of primary concern to the pediatrician, because it first becomes manifest at about the first year . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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From the Department of Pediatric Research, the Fifth Avenue Hospital.

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