Detection of Outbreak Signals Using R

Primary systemic amyloidosis

“…In this case also there is a previous history of haematemesis which the patient ascribed to some medicine given by the village quack. Cases reported by Lubarsch (1929), Golden (1945) and Rigdon (1948) Though no petechiae were discovered in the gastro-intestinal tract at autopsy, their presence in the kidney was part of the amyloid picture. The kidneys were massively affected and diffusely scarred and infiltrated with lymphocytes and plasma cells, a common finding in amyloidosis.…”