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Brief Review of Literature and Report of a Case

GEORGE J. ANDAY, M.D.; HENRY L. SCHMITZ, M.D.

AMA Arch Intern Med. 1952;89(4):621-634.

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ABRIEF review of the literature on blood changes in follicular lymphoma disclosed that in the cases reported by Brill, Baehr, and Rosenthal¹ the blood picture was normal. The majority of later cases also appeared to be associated with normal red blood cell count and hemoglobin values. Sometimes slight anemia was observed.² According to Gall and associates,³ anemia (a count of 3,500,000 red blood cells or less) was found in 18% of their 63 follicular lymphoma cases, compared with an incidence of 39% in their cases of other lymphomas. They frequently noted anemia as a terminal manifestation, perhaps due to long-continued irradiation. Meyer⁴ reported marked anemia in one of six cases; moderate anemia in two, and no anemia in three cases. Mayer and Thomas⁵ found terminal normocytic anemia in all their cases. The anemia was severe in only two cases. One patient, with normal results on bone marrow study, reacted well . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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Footnotes
Dr. Anday is Assistant Clinical Professor of Medicine.

Dr. Schmitz is Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine.

This work was supported by a grant from the Hematology Research Foundation. From the Department of Medicine, Stritch School of Medicine, Loyola University.

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