PEDIATRICS Vol. 7 No. 1 January 1951, pp. 53-59
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ACUTE INFANTILE GAUCHER'S DISEASE

Case Report

CHARLES LAWRENCE RODGERS M.D.1 and SANFORD HUGH JACKSON PH.D.1

1 The Department of Pathology of the Hospital for Sick Children and the Department of Pathology, University of Toronto, and the wards and research laboratory of the Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Canada.

A typical case of acute infantile Gaucher's disease is reported in a female infant, in which the initial symptoms were noted at 3frac12 months of age and death occurred at 9 months.

Clinical analysis of the liver and spleen showed a considerable excess of ceresin, approximately 73% of which was in the form of glucosido-cerebroside.

Submitted on May 24, 1950