THE CLINICAL MANIFESTATIONS OF AMYLOIDOSIS
Authors: Milton B. Rosenblatt
Journal: Annals of Internal Medicine (1934)

Article1 December 1934THE CLINICAL MANIFESTATIONS OF AMYLOIDOSISMILTON B. ROSENBLATT, M.D.MILTON B. ROSENBLATT, M.D.Search for more papers by this authorAuthor, Article, and Disclosure Informationhttps://doi.org/10.7326/0003-4819-8-6-678 SectionsAboutPDF ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack CitationsPermissions ShareFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail ExcerptThe recent widespread use of the Congo Red test for the clinical determination of amyloidosis has aroused much interest in a subject which for the past two or three decades had been looked upon more as a pathological curiosity than as a clinical entity. The favorable results originally submitted by Bennhold110 years ago have been repeatedly confirmed by other observers. Bookman and Rosenthal,2Schönberger and Rosenblatt,3Nemeth,4Shapiro,5Wallace,6and many others have reported corroborative evidence of the diagnostic value of the test. 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