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KURT ZELTMACHER, M.D.; MARGARET BEVANS, M.D.

Arch Intern Med. 1945;75(6):395-403.

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Although hemochromatosis is a comparatively rare condition, its association with aplastic anemia is frequent enough to suggest that the combination of the two diseases is more than accidental. The purpose of this paper is to draw further attention to this association by reviewing the reported cases, adding another case and discussing the pathologic changes common to the two conditions.

Whitby and Britton¹ stated that about 150 cases of idiopathic aplastic anemia are recorded in the literature on medicine. Thompson, Richter and Edsall² and later Rhoads and Miller³ drew attention to the discrepancy between the peripheral blood and the bone marrow and to the frequent occurrence of cellular and even hypercellular marrow when the elements in the peripheral blood were reduced in numbers. Rosenthal⁴ distinguished between two forms of aplastic anemia, the typical and the atypical. The atypical form includes the chronic type of aplastic anemia with . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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From the Department of Medicine, New York University College of Medicine, and the Third (New York University) Medical Division and the Laboratories of Pathology, Goldwater Memorial Hospital, Welfare Island, N. Y.

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