An evaluation of the Bolen blood pattern test for detecting cancer.

نویسندگان

  • A M VAUGHN
  • W R T METZNER
  • C M ANNAN
چکیده

examination of all patients, has been outstanding in the minds of cancer specialists and public health authorities for years . Bolen' has advocated the gross and microscopic (low power) morphology of' dried drops of blood as sufficiently diagnostic to fill this need in many instances. Bolen employs the technic of Goldbergera as a rapid bedside test for measuring the blood sedimentation rate . Giron," in 515 cases in Guatemala, closely approximated Bolcn's 9o per cent accuracy . Bolen also differentiates "beginning malignancy" front "late malignancy" by this blood pattern test. Our purpose here is an attempt to evaluate this test fairly and to duplicate the results of Bolen in a study of loo cancer and non-cancer patients . METHODS

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • American journal of surgery

دوره 84 6  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 1952