Case of carcinoma of the stomach with metastases in the bone-marrow, and a blood picture suggestive of pernicious anæmia / by Archibald W. Harrington and John H. Teacher.

  • Harrington, Archibald W. (Archibald Wilson)
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[1910]
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Credit: Case of carcinoma of the stomach with metastases in the bone-marrow, and a blood picture suggestive of pernicious anæmia / by Archibald W. Harrington and John H. Teacher. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Reprinted from the '■'■Glasgow Medical Joxmial April, 1910.] CASE OF CARCINOMA OF THE STOMACH WITH METASTASES IN THE BONE-MARROW, AND A BLOOD PICTURE SUGGESTIVE OF PERNICIOUS AN^MIA.i By ARCHIBALD W. HARRINGTON, M.D., Assistant Physician, Glasgow Royal Infirmary ; AND JOHN H. TEACHER, M.D., Pathologist to the Glasgow Royal Infirmary. It has long been recognised that cases of carcinoma of the stomach are frequently attended by a severe degree of anaemia. This anaemia is usually of the secondary type, and is likely to be more marked if numerous secondary growths are present. Erythroblasts are said to occur more frequently in it than in any other secondary antemia, with the exception of that accompanying sarcoma (Da Costa). Other cases of cancerous anaemia have been described in which the blood picture was identical with that of pernicious anaemia. Many of these, however, occurred when our knowledge of the methods of examination of the blood and of its histology fell far short of modern requirements. Metastatic cancerous deposits in the marrow of the bones have been frequently observed, but the blood in such cases has comparatively seldom been examined. Metastases in the bone-marrow secondar}^ to cancer of the stomach have been noted by Frese, Goetsch, Ewing, Dickson, Parmentier and Chabrol, Schliep and Luzzato, and secondary to cancer in other organs by Houston (breast), Epstein (breast), Hirschfeld ' Read at a meeting of the Medico-Chirurgical Society of Glasgow held on 28th January, 1910.