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THE IMPORTANCE OF A LEUCOCYTE COUNT IN DOUBTFUL CASES OF APPENDICITIS

1914; BMJ; Volume: 1; Issue: 2770 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1136/bmj.1.2770.240

ISSN

0959-8138

Autores

G. F. Aldous,

Tópico(s)

Diverticular Disease and Complications

Resumo

LEUCOCYTE COUNT IN APPE NDICITIS.rJAN. 3 I9}4 frienids were at.first amused, and did niot realize that it was niot part of the enitertainment.Thiey tlheni camne to hiis help andl gav-e hiim a glass of water, which he was iuinable to swallow, the filuid reyurgitating through the nlose.This was followed the next day l)v paralysis of the left leg, left arm, anid left side of the face, including the upper part, and,.for a monitlh lie lhad to l)e fed with a tube.This hiappened in Japan; the doctor treated him by in-unction, anid after a montl lie was able to swallow anid speak.He vas senit to me on hiis returni from Japan suffering wvith the remaitns of a left-sided paralysis, including the uIpper facial muscles, anid there was also paresis of the left vocal cord anid soft palate.He atten(led my practice for some years witliout fuirther symptoms, and gradulally

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