Polycythemia Vera in an Eleven-Year-Old Girl

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WINTROBE1 has reported that cases of polycythemia vera have been described early in life, but evidence that they are not examples of secondary polycythemia has seldom been presented. He states that the case described by Halbertsma2 , 3 in a six-year-old boy is the most convincing report. Lawrence4 refers to 1 well documented case of polycythemia vera in a girl aged nine years and nine months. Because of the paucity of reports of polycythemia vera in childhood studied by methods available today, the following case is reported.Case ReportA Caucasian girl was born in Maracaibo, Venezuela (sea level), on December 14, . . .

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