This Article  • References  • Full text PDF  • Send to a friend  • Save in My Folder  • Save to citation manager  • Permissions  Citing Articles  • Citation map  • Citing articles on HighWire  • Contact me when this article is cited  Related Content  • Similar articles in this journal  Social Bookmarking   What's this?

KATSUJI KATO, M.D., PH.D.

Am J Dis Child. 1937;54(2):209-230.

	Since this article does not have an abstract, we have provided the first 150 words of the full text PDF and any section headings.

Biopsy of superficially lying tissues, such as the skin, the muscle and the subcutaneous lymph nodes, has long been a common diagnostic procedure in cases of obscure conditions in which routine clinical and laboratory examinations offer little or no definite information. Though not a new procedure, biopsy of the bone marrow in cases of various types of blood dyscrasia has only recently become popular as a diagnostic measure, largely because of the simplification of the technic and the growing conviction on the part of many observers that in certain instances the peripheral blood reflects only meagerly the more acute pathologic changes in the marrow. Modern research workers in hematology have come more and more to emphasize the two distinct physiologic processes involved in the normal maintenance of cellular balance in the blood, namely, (1) the normal maturation of various blood cells in the hematopoietic centers and (2) the normal rate . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
CHICAGO

From the Department of Pediatrics and the Bobs Roberts Memorial Hospital for Children, the University of Chicago.

Footnotes
Read before the Chicago Pediatric Society, Nov. 17, 1936.

CiteULike    Connotea    Del.icio.us    Digg    Reddit    Technorati    Twitter     What's this?