The authors present nine cases of Gaucher’s disease in which the diagnosis, suspected on clinical grounds, was definitely established by the detection of the Gaucher cells in the smear of the sternal marrow. The authors review the varieties of the clinical picture in this disease. They discuss the importance of sternal puncture with special reference to the possibility of establishing the diagnosis in subclinical cases.

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© 1948 by American Society of Hematology, Inc.
1948

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