A STUDY OF ONE HUNDRED CASES OF JAUNDICE
- 22 December 1934
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Medical Association (AMA) in JAMA
- Vol. 103 (25) , 1924-1930
- https://doi.org/10.1001/jama.1934.02750510026007
Abstract
During the last three years we have studied a group of 100 patients with jaundice at the Cincinnati General Hospital with particular attention to clinical manifestations, galactose tolerance and ability to excrete bromsulphalein. We have determined the degree of jaundice during the course of illness by means of the icteric index and van den Bergh determinations and the presence or absence of complete obstruction by study of duodenal contents, urine and stools. We are thoroughly in accord with the importance of clinical observations in the differential diagnosis of jaundice as recently stressed by Flood, Seegal, Spock and Loeb.1We feel, however, that laboratory studies, particularly the galactose tolerance test, may prove of great help in the diagnosis of some cases and lend confirmatory evidence in others. The galactose tolerance test was devised by Bauer2in 1906 as a test of hepatic function. Two years later he3reportedKeywords
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