Leukemia in children. Hunter (Glasgow med. journ., 1928, 109)

Leukemia in children is a rare disease - Hunter observed only 22 cases in children from 7 weeks to 14 years of age over a period of 20 years. The course of the disease in most cases was very acute, the number of leukocytes often being lower than in adults. In one case the disease lasted 2 years, in 4 it lasted 1 year, but in the remaining cases it lasted not more than 7 months. It was difficult, even impossible, to differentiate between lymphatic and myeloid types of the disease. We know no more about the pathogenesis of the suffering than we do about a similar disease in adults. The fever and rapid course of the disease in children speak more in favor of its infectious origin.