Chronic Idiopathic Granulocytopenia

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Abstract
THERE are many reports describing patients with chronic granulocytopenia in whom no responsible disease could be demonstrated. Any classification of these patients other than a descriptive one would be difficult as yet because knowledge of the etiologies and mechanisms involved in most of these cases is scanty. The purpose of this paper is to describe a patient with chronic granulocytopenia who does not resemble previously reported cases and to present studies done in an attempt to define the underlying mechanism for the decreased blood granulocyte concentration.Case ReportA 9-year-old girl was referred to the Children's Hospital because of recurrent . . .