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

A STATISTICAL CORRELATION WITH THE CLINICOPATHOLOGIC PICTURE

S. R. BERSACK, M.D.

Arch Intern Med. 1944;73(3):232-237.

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

At the conclusion of his article on Hodgkin's disease in the 1939 University of Wisconsin Symposium on Blood, Krumbhaar¹ succinctly commented: "Thus we see that in general, the problems of Hodgkin's disease in the past generation remain the problems of today. We still do not know whether it is an infectious granuloma or a neoplasm, and, therefore, we are ignorant of its pathogenesis; we have no specific laboratory diagnostic test other than the biopsy examination. We have no means of predicting how long a given case will survive; and we have no specific form of treatment."

It was with the hope of throwing some light on the two last-named factors that this study was undertaken. The review also included a careful search for clues as to a common predisposing factor or etiologic agent. However, the main question posed was: Are there any criteria for predicting the course and duration . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
WASHINGTON, D. C.

From the Tumor Service, Veterans Administration Facility, Hines, Ill.

Footnotes
Published with the permission of the Medical Director of the Veterans Administration, who assumes no responsibility for the opinion expressed or the conclusions drawn by the author.

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