A case of nonneurologic Gaucher's disease that biochemically resembles the neurologic types.

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Systemic findings such as hepatosplenomegaly and typical Gaucher storage cells in a bone marrow aspirate led to the clinical diagnosis of Gaucher's disease in the seven-year old patient described in this report. On the basis of the lack of neurologic involvement the child was classified as having the Type 1, nonneurologic form of Gaucher's disease. After splenectomy glucocerebrosidase was extracted from her...

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