MedicineOncologyPathologyHematopathologyHistopathologyNeoplasiaAnemiaHematologic DisordersHematologic MalignanciesRed Blood Cell DisordersHematologic AbnormalitiesPregnancy-related AnemiaSevere Anemia
I261subject.Ehrlich could find only one case of this description in recent literature.9At Sloane Maternity Hospital from I892 to I899 Ewing states that he saw many cases of severe anaemia but none of the progressive pernicious type.10Ahlfeld, with a wide experience, could not report a single case following pregnancy (i898).1>4. Cancer.-Ithas been often stated that cancer, especially cancer of the stomach, may give rise to the blood changes characteristic of progressive pernicious anaemia.Hunter,.however, who has gone very fully into the literature of this subject, comments on the extreme rarity of such a con- nexion, as he was able to find only the following cases:- Quincke, I case; Eisenlohe, 2 cases; Letten, I case; Grawitz, 3 cases.He also states that these cases from the accounts given are not entirely free from question as to the character of the anaemia present.12The following cases of severe anaemia associated with malignant disease will show that the blood changes are, as a rule, totally different from those of true pernicious anaemia.°,a iDiagnosis.19/1,/02 2,760,000 22,000 22.0 0.40 8i.o 17.0 0.2 o o Cancer of stomach.6/1/02 2,120,000 3,100 21.7 0.51 76.8 23.2 0.0 c o Cancer of stomachl. 2/2/00 3,190,000 7,000 45-4 0.