BACKGROUND Ascites is a common clinical sign noted in 3% to 4% of hospitalized medical patients. Nearly 94% of patients with ascites have non-malignant etiologies, with the most common being chronic ...

It is unlikely that hematology tests would have given much additional information about the abdominal mass. We did not consider the ocular lesion and abdominal lesion to be related but rather ...

Read before the Suffolk District Medical Society, Boston, Massachusetts, November 16, 1927. For record and address of author, see "This Week's Issue," page 311.