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THE first case in this series of anti-M sensitized patients was reported in 1958 because it presented a unique exception to the generalization that cold agglutinins are without significance in transfusion practice. The patient had received no M stimulus from either previous transfusion or pregnancy. We commented: “The possibility of a relation between the abnormal isoantibody and the patient's carcinoma of the cecum is being investigated”1.
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KLEIN, S., REILLY, E. & MATSUSHIMA, J. An Uncommon Blood Group Isoantibody (Anti-M) in Neoplastic Disease. Nature 197, 393–394 (1963). https://doi.org/10.1038/197393a0
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