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The Leucocyte Count in Children with Mongolism

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 February 2018

Ursula Mittwoch
Ursula Mittwoch*
Affiliation:
Galton Laboratory, University College, London
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A previous communication (Mittwoch, 1957) contained evidence that the leucocyte count in children with mongolism showed certain abnormalities. Although the total count was not affected, the lymphocyte count was lower and the neutrophil count seemed somewhat higher than in a comparable control group. It will be shown in the present paper that these differences between mongol and non-mongol children are dependent on age, and that the gradual drop with age of the lymphocyte count, which is found in normal children (Kato, 1935), does not occur in children with mongolism.

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Journal of Mental Science , Volume 104 , Issue 435 , April 1958 , pp. 457 - 460
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1958 

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