AN ARTICLE CONTRIBUTED TO AN ANNIVERSARY VOLUME IN HONOR OF DOCTOR JOSEPH HERSEY PRATT
Authors: WILDER TILESTON
Journal: Annals of Internal Medicine (1937)

Article1 October 1937AN ARTICLE CONTRIBUTED TO AN ANNIVERSARY VOLUME IN HONOR OF DOCTOR JOSEPH HERSEY PRATTFAMILIAL SHIFT TO THE LEFT OF THE LEUKOCYTES (PELGER'S NUCLEAR ANOMALY OF THE LEUKOCYTES), WITH REPORT OF A CASE*WILDER TILESTON, M.D.WILDER TILESTON, M.D.Search for more papers by this authorAuthor, Article, and Disclosure Informationhttps://doi.org/10.7326/0003-4819-11-4-675 SectionsAboutPDF ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack CitationsPermissions ShareFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail ExcerptIn 1928 Pelger6reported to the Dutch Pathological Society at Amsterdam two cases showing an anomaly of the leukocytes, hitherto undescribed in the literature. The neutrophiles, eosinophiles and basophiles all showed a large percentage with non-segmented nuclei, and the segmented forms were represented almost exclusively by those with only two nuclei. Furthermore, the nuclei differed from those met with in the ordinary shift to the left of infectious diseases, in that they had a remarkably regular shape with even contours. The protoplasm of the neutrophiles on the other hand showed fine even granulations, of the type seen in mature cells....Bibliography1. ALIEFFREEKERS MR: Weitere Fälle der Pelger'schen Kernanomalie, Klin. Wchnschr., 1936, xv, 1522. CrossrefGoogle Scholar2. BURGER GC: Over familiaire linksverschuiving der leukocyten, Nederl. Tijdschr. v. Geneesk., 1932, lxxvi, 5342. Google Scholar3. CHEVALLIERÉLY PZ: Un cas d'anomalie nucléaire de Pelger, Le Sang, 1936, x, 398. Google Scholar4. HUËT GJ: Over een familiaire anomalie der leucocyten, Nederl. Tijdschr. v. Geneesk., 1931, lxxv, 5956. Über eine bisher unbekannte familiäre Anomalie der Leukocyten, Klin. Wchnschr., 1932, xi, 1264. Google Scholar5. JORDANS GH: Een zelden voorkomende afwÿking in de witte bloedcellen, Nederl. Tijdschr. v. Geneesk., 1932, lxxvi, 5338. Google Scholar6. PELGER K: Demonstratie van een paar zeldzaam voorkomende typen van bloedlichaanipjes en bespreking der patienten, Nederl. Tijdschr. v. Geneesk., 1928, lxxii, 1178. Google Scholar7. PETERSON RF: Familial shift to the left of the granular leukocytes, Am. Jr. Clin. Path., 1935, v, 249. CrossrefGoogle Scholar8. SCHILLING V: Neue Fälle der Pelgerschen familiären Kernanomalie der Leukocyten, Deutsch. med. Wchnschr., 1933, lix, 724. Das Blutbild und seine klinische Verwerthung, 9th and 10th Edit., Jena, 1933, p. 181. CrossrefGoogle Scholar9. UNDRITZ E: Ueber das Vorkommen einer Familie im Wallis mit "pseudoregenerativem" weissem Blutbild, u. s. w., Schweiz, med. Wchnschr., 1933, xiv, 286; 1934, xv, 10. Google Scholar10. ZÜNDEL W: Ein Fall von Pelgerscherfamiliärer Kernanomalie, Folia haemat., 1935-36, liv, 1. Google Scholar This content is PDF only. To continue reading please click on the PDF icon. Author, Article, and Disclosure InformationAffiliations: New Haven, Connecticut*Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Physicians, May 5, 1937. PreviousarticleNextarticle Advertisement FiguresReferencesRelatedDetails Metrics Cited byDie erblich-konstitutionellen morphologischen Anomalien der LeukocytenPelger–Huët Anomaly of the LeukocytesTELEVISION AND HEALTHODDITIES IN GRANULAR LEUCOCYTESTHE PELGER-HUET ANOMALY OF THE LEUCOCYTESEnvironmental variations in the Arneth countErbpathologie des Blutes und der blutbildenden OrganeErbpathologie des Blutes und der blutbildenden Organe 1 October 1937Volume 11, Issue 4Page: 675-681KeywordsBloodCellsCytoplasmInfectious diseases ePublished: 1 December 2008 Issue Published: 1 October 1937 PDF downloadLoading ...