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REPORT OF A CASE WITH APPARENT RECOVERY

JAMES A. BABBITT, M.D.; THOMAS FITZ-HUGH, JR., M.D.

Arch Otolaryngol. 1930;12(4):439-445.

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The subject of agranulocytic angina was carefully presented before the Section on Otolaryngology by Hunter¹ in 1925 and by Houser and Rose² in 1928. The propriety of considering agranulocytic angina as a separate syndrome distinct from other types of agranulocytosis (or sepsis with granulocytopenia) is admittedly open to question, as pointed out by Krumbhaar in a discussion of Hunter's paper. We believe, however, that the condition first clearly recognized by Schultz,³ of Berlin, in 1922 is sufficiently distinct to warrant, at least for the present, a specific designation. Our remarks, therefore, will be concerned chiefly with this symptom-complex known as agranulocytic angina and not with the more variegated pictures of agranulocytosis in general.

The literature of the past few years presents a rapidly increasing number of case reports, now more than a hundred. Some of these were instances of agranulocytosis without angina, some were cases of . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
PHILADELPHIA

From the Department of Otolaryngology and the Department of Medicine, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania.

Footnotes
Submitted for publication, April 28, 1930.

Read before the Section on Otolaryngology, College of Physicians, April 16, 1930.

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