PEDIATRICS Vol. 21 No. 3 March 1958, pp. 436-442
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PATHOLOGY IN LEUKEMIA COMPLICATED BY FATAL MEASLES

C. Lenore Simpson D.M.1 and Donald Pinkel M.D.2

1 Department of Pathology, Roswell Park Memorial Institute, Buffalo, New York
2 Department of Pediatrics, Roswell Park Memorial Institute, Buffalo, New York

A fatal case of measles complicating leukemia in an infant is reported. Giant-cell pneumonia and a few giant cells in lymph nodes were seen as in previously reported cases. In addition, necroses in liver, lymph nodes, thymus, pancreas and kidney associated with giant-cell formation and inclusion bodies were observed.

Submitted on September 13, 1957
Accepted on October 23, 1957