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ITS VALUE IN DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS

WILLIAM P. MURPHY, M.D.; GREENE FITZHUGH, M.D.

Arch Intern Med. 1930;46(3):440-457.

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A knowledge of the relative size of the red blood cells may be of definite value in differentiating between the types of anemia. This information may be obtained by a careful study of the red blood cells in a stained smear made from the patient's blood. Determinations of the mean diameter of the red blood cells by actual measurement of a number of cells, as suggested by Price-Jones,¹ or by a modification of this method, have been made use of frequently; but this method is rather too time-consuming to be used extensively. Pijper² and others have suggested a diffraction method for determining the size of the red blood cells. Haden³ suggested the determination of the volume of the average red blood cell by means of a simple calculation based on a knowledge of the red blood cell count and the total percentage volume of cells as determined by means of . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
BOSTON

From the Medical Wards of the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital.

Footnotes
Submitted for publication, Dec. 18, 1929.

This study was aided by a grant from the Proctor Fund of the Harvard University Medical School for the study of chronic disease.

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