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Blood Volume in Malignant Disease: Case Studies in 86 Females 1
Author(s) -
REEVE T. S.,
VINCENT P. C.,
BRITTLE NEA,
NICHOLLS ANNETTE
Publication year - 1968
Publication title -
australian and new zealand journal of surgery
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.111
H-Index - 51
eISSN - 1445-2197
pISSN - 0004-8682
DOI - 10.1111/j.1445-2197.1971.tb05193.x
Subject(s) - medicine , malignant disease , volume (thermodynamics) , disease , intensive care medicine , pathology , cancer , physics , quantum mechanics
The problem of blood replacement in the individual cancer patient remains unanswered. On present evidence, such a patient must be assumed to be drawn from a population with a mean total blood volume and mean red‐cell volume below normal and thus must be assumed to have a better‐than‐even chance of having a depleted volume. However, it does not necessarily follow that transfusion is necessary; this should ideally be assessed by blood volume determination in each individual case.