EFFECTS OF ALKOXYGLYCEROLS (KABY 700) ON LEUCOPENIA FOLLOWING RADIOTHERAPY

>A well-conducted irradiation provokes only occasional leukopenia of any importance. A preparation of alkoxyglycerol esters, similar to those found in insaponifiable lipid extracts of bone marrow, was tested on 15 patients whose leukocytosis, normal at the beginning, fell below 5000/mm/sup 3/ during radiotherapeutic treatment. This medication had the property of rapidly curing radioinduced leukopenia. Four patients could not tolerate the medication, and in seven other cases no effect was noted. In four additional cases leukocytosis was increased, but this increase could be attributed to the medication in only two of these cases. (tr-auth)