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CLINICAL COURSE AND PATHOLOGIC LESIONS IN SIXTEEN CASES

HUGO O. ALTNOW, M.D.; CHARLOTTE C. VAN WINKLE, M.D.; HENRY W. MALY, M.D.; LOWELL E. WILLIAMS, M.D.

Arch Intern Med. 1935;56(5):944-975.

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While renal amyloidosis is a common complication of tuberculosis, apparently it has not received much attention from English-speaking physicians, so far as published reports are concerned. Reports of only 14 cases of amyloid in the kidneys were found in a review of the literature from Jan. 1, 1917, to Dec. 31, 1932. We found the following cases reported, including those of both tuberculous and nontuberculous origin:

Noble and Major¹ reported 3 cases, 2 of which occurred in conjunction with chronic osteomyelitis (presumably nontuberculous) and 1 of which was of undetermined etiology. Cabot² reported a case in which there was unexplained fever of four months' duration. Necropsy revealed abdominal lymphadenopathy with ascites. The pathologic report on a lymph gland was "chronic inflammation." Christian³ reported a case in which no cause for the general amyloidosis could be found. Shapiro⁴ reported 1 case of a patient with tuberculous arthritis . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
MINNEAPOLIS; OAK TERRACE, MINN.

From the Nicollet Clinic of Minneapolis and the Glen Lake Sanatorium, Oak Terrace.

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