Chloromatous Tumours in African Children in Uganda

Abstract

In African children in Uganda there is a great and genuine deficiency of leukaemias and an excess of solid lympho-reticular tumours as compared with Europe and the U.S.A. The frequency of true chloromas is remarkably high; at least onequarter of all leukaemias are chloromatous. The implications of this are discussed, with particular reference to the common lymphoblastic lymphoma of African children. © 1965, British Medical Journal Publishing Group. All rights reserved.