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A DIAGNOSTIC AID IN LEUKAEMIA CUTIS; A POSSIBLE AID IN DIFFERENTIATING THE LYMPHOBLASTOMAS

LYLE B. KINGERY, M.D.; EDWIN E. OSGOOD, M.D.; ALFRED H. ILLGE, M.D.

Arch Derm Syphilol. 1937;35(5):910-918.

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Much has been written during the past years concerning the so-called lymphoblastomas. Opinions as to the proper classification of this group of diseases have varied widely. Theories have included a neoplastic and an infectious background. Some observers have referred to the members of this group as separate clinical entities; others have preferred the explanation of genetically related variations of a common tissue source. More recently there seems to be an increasing agreement of opinion among those interesting themselves in this particular group of diseases. Keim's¹ statement suggesting a common origin in the hematopoietic or reticulo-endothelial system is apparently accepted by an increasing number of investigators. According to a recent statement by Wile,² the occurrence of mutations as well as their significance ". . . constitutes strong evidence in favor of the view that lymphoblastomas are genetically related neoplasms involving the lymphoid tissues." It was this growing conception . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
PORTLAND, ORE.

From the Department of Dermatology and Syphilology and the Department of Medicine, University of Oregon Medical School.

Footnotes
Read at the Fifty-Ninth Annual Meeting of the American Dermatological Association, Inc., Swampscott, Mass., June 4, 1936.

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