THE danger of high-altitude flying to patients with sicklemia, until lately, has been more theoretical than.real. As recently as 1951 Margolies 1 said that "the sickle cell trait is not a ...

Atraumatic splenic rupture is a rare but clinically significant event occurring in the absence of external trauma. Often representing the initial manifestation of underlying pathology—such as ...

The purpose of this paper is to report 2 additional cases of this syndrome and to show that in these cases conservative medical management was entirely satisfactory. Case l.§ A 22-year-old Negro ...