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ISADORE ROSEN, M.D.; FRANCES KRASNOW, Ph.D.; MORRIS A. LYONS, M.D.

Arch Derm Syphilol. 1934;29(5):707-716.

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These investigations are a continuation of our previous studies on the lipids in the blood in syphilis. Our former work was carried out on the whole blood of the patient, whereas in this series the analyses were made on the blood serum, and in order to obtain a more complete picture of the biochemical findings, we included the determination of the albumin-globulin ratio on each specimen. The reason for this change to the blood serum lay in our desire to study the relationship of the lipids, albumin and globulin to the Wassermann reaction, other workers on this problem having claimed that examination of the serum was more accurate than that of the whole blood. Analyses were made of the total lipids, total cholesterol, cholesterol esters, free cholesterol, percentage of free cholesterol, lecithin, albumin and globulin.

The accompanying tables and charts give summaries of the data obtained in our investigations; however, . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
NEW YORK

From the Department of Dermatology and Syphilology, New York Post-Graduate Medical School and Hospital, Columbia University.

Footnotes
Read before the Section on Dermatology and Syphilology at the Eighty-Fourth Annual Session of the American Medical Association, Milwaukee, June 15, 1933.

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