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G. Graham (1924)
A CASE OF SICKLE CELL ANEMIA WITH NECROPSYJAMA Internal Medicine, 34
V. Emmel (1917)
A STUDY OF THE ERYTHROCYTES IN A CASE OF SEVERE ANEMIA WITH ELONGATED AND SICKLE-SHAPED RED BLOOD CORPUSCLESJAMA Internal Medicine
J. Huck
Sickle Cell Anaemia.Bulletin of the Johns Hopkins Hospital, 34
V. Mason (1922)
Sickle Cell AnemiaJAMA, 79
R. Moser, W. Shaw (1925)
SICKLE CELL ANEMIA IN NORTHERN NEGROJAMA, 84
V. Sydenstricker (1924)
FURTHER OBSERVATIONS ON SICKLE CELL ANEMIAJAMA, 83
H. Anderson (1926)
SICKLE‐CELL ANEMIA. REPORT OF AN ACTIVE CASEThe American Journal of the Medical Sciences, 171
V. Sydenstricked, W. Mulherin, R. Houseal (1923)
SICKLE CELL ANEMIA: REPORT OF TWO CASES IN CHILDREN, WITH NECROPSY IN ONE CASEJAMA Pediatrics, 26
T. Cooley, Pearl Lee (1926)
THE SICKLE CELL PHENOMENONJAMA Pediatrics, 32
R. Archibald (1926)
A case of sickle cell anæmia in the SudanTransactions of The Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 19
Evidence accumulated in many clinics by different observers has established beyond peradventure the existence of sickle cell anemia as a distinct clinical entity. Although the condition was first recognized by Herrick and reported as early as 1910,1 the relatively high morbidity among negroes was not suspected prior to the reports of Huck2 and Sydenstricker3 in 1923. The latter found sickle cells in the blood of 0.6 per cent of a large number of negroes examined. More recently Cooley and Lee4 examined all negroes admitted to their clinic during a period of ten months, 400 patients, and found sickle cells in 30 of them, that is, in 7.5 per cent. Such an unexpectedly high incidence should challenge one to a clearer knowledge and more ready recognition of this condition. Sickle cells are red blood corpuscles which have assumed unusual shapes through some influence, probably a perversion of
American journal of diseases of children – American Medical Association
Published: Jul 1, 1927
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