[Usefulness of bone-marrow culture in the etiological diagnosis of septicemia]. / Utilidad del mielocultivo en el diagnóstico etiológico de la septicemia.

Considerations are made on the importance of septicemia and the difficulty for an early diagnosis in most patients. The great usefulness shown by bone-marrow culture in the diagnosis of typhoid fever is pointed out and it is considered that this procedure may lend great help in the etiologic diagnosis of general infections. Twenty patients with septicemia are analyzed and the frequency of bone-marrow culture and of blood culture positiveness are compared and it is found that the percentage is greater for the first than for the second.

[Blastic crisis and cerebral leukotaxis in a case of lymphoblastic acute leukemia]. / Crisis blástica y leucostásis cerebral en un caso de leucemia aguda linfoblástica

The present report deals with the case of an eleven-years-old child with acute lymphoblastic leukemia who showed blastic crises, leukostasis and cerebral hemorrhage. The pathogenesis of these complications is analyzed and some therapeutic rules are outlined.

[Hemangiolymphangioma of the abdominal cavity complicated with consumption coagulopathy]. / Hemangiolinfangioma de cavidad abdominal complicado con coagulopatía por consumo

A case of giant hemangiolymphangioma of abdominal cavity is reported. It showed severe bleeding from consumption coagulopathy and secondary fibrinolysis. (Kasabach-Merritt syndrome). A review is made of the production mechanism of coagulation abnormalities that may accompany vascular neoplasias, the usefulness of anticoagulants and the selective treatment in this type of disease.