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MRS. L. B., the mother of two children, had a history of pulmonary tuberculosis for which a lobectomy had been performed in 1950 when a blood transfusion was given. In November 1961 it was decided to perform a thoracoplasty, but difficulty was encountered by the hospital's laboratory in selecting blood for transfusion during the operation. All available donor bloods proved incompatible, and the Transfusion Centre was asked to help.
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Crawford, Mary N., Greenwalt, T. J., Sasaki, T., Tippett, Patricia, Sanger, Ruth, and Race, R. R., Transfusion, 1, 228 (1961).
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DARNBOROUGH, J., FIRTH, R., GILES, C. et al. A “New” Antibody Anti-LuaLub and Two Further Examples of the Genotype Lu(a–b–). Nature 198, 796 (1963). https://doi.org/10.1038/198796a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/198796a0
