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Blood and blood‐vessels. Hemorrhages in scurvy
Publication year - 1924
Publication title -
acta pædiatrica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.772
H-Index - 115
eISSN - 1651-2227
pISSN - 0803-5253
DOI - 10.1111/j.1651-2227.1924.tb14511.x
Subject(s) - medicine , scurvy , weakness , connective tissue , blood vessel , regeneration (biology) , pathology , anatomy , surgery , vitamin c , biology , microbiology and biotechnology
In scurvy there is, according to the results of previous investigators, a deficient regeneration of crythrocytes and polymorphous leukocytes, an initial hyperemia and a weakness of the vascular wall. This weakness is explained by the present author as a defective formation of the collagen connective tissue of the vessel and the lack of sufficient support from the atrophic tissue outside the vessel