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- Title
Normal Fluctuations of Leucocyte Counts and the Response to Infection in Benign Familial Leucopenia.
- Authors
Weingarten, Michael A; Kahan, Ernesto; Brauner, Arieh
- Abstract
In a long-term follow-up of 47 Yemenite patients with benign familial leucopenia, the mean white-cell count was 4,578 with a standard deviation of 940. During bacterial infections, the average leucocyte increment was the same in leucopenic as in non-leucopenic subjects, leading to total leucocyte counts in the normal range in previously leucopenic subjects. The marked degree of variability makes clinical interpretation difficult when leucocyte counts are found between levels standardised as normal in sick patients previously known to be leucopenic. Copyright © 1992 S. Karger AG, Basel
- Publication
Acta Haematologica, 1992, Vol 87, Issue 3, p126
- ISSN
0001-5792
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1159/000204738