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S. A. WALLACE, M.D.; W. P. KILLINGSWORTH, M.D.

Am J Dis Child. 1935;50(5):1208-1215.

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Sickle cell anemia and the sickling phenomenon are generally considered to be found only in Negroes or in persons having an admixture of Negro blood. A review of the literature, however, shows reports of several cases in which the possibility of Negro blood in the patient is remote.

Archibald¹ reported a case of sickle cell anemia in an Arab, and Stewart² reported one in a Cuban; in neither could the possibility of Negro blood be excluded. On the other hand, Castana³ reported a case of sickle cells in an Italian child, and Cooley and Lee⁴ reported a typical case in a Greek child, in whom the possibility of Negro blood was improbable. Rosenfeld and Pincus⁵ described an instance of a child of Mediterranean parentage with sickle cell anemia, in whom the presence of Negro blood was not possible, as the family had lived in the . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
DALLAS, TEXAS

From the Department of Pathology of Baylor University, College of Medicine and the Baylor University Hospital Laboratories.

Footnotes
Read before the Dallas Society of Experimental Medicine (in abstract) on May 10, 1934.

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