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Title: The Roentgen rays in medicine and surgery as an aid in diagnosis and as a therapeutic agent; designed for the use of practitioners and students
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: Williams, Francis H. (Francis Henry), 1852-1936
Subjects: Radiotherapy Radiography Radiography, Thoracic
Publisher: New York : The Macmillan Company London, Macmillan & Co., ltd.
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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and the hoarse-ness was diminished, but later the patient did not do well. One was a new growth in the leg of a man, sixty-seven years of age, who hadhad seven operations, the first five years ago. X-ray treatment was instituted andcarried on for several months, the exposures being given usually once a week,and the growth diminished in size. Then the treatment was discontinued forseveral weeks ; at the end of this time three small, raised, soft, dark areas ofspindle-celled sarcoma appeared in the wound. Vigorous treatment was givenby the X-rays, but the disease did not yield, and amputation was advised. The thirteenth was a case of spindle-celled sarcoma, in which nearly thewhole abdominal wall was involved. The patient, a woman, improved very APPENDIX :OI much under X-ray exposures, but they were begun in so late a stage of thedisease that she had not sufficient strength to continue to come for treatment.Johnson and Merrill ^ report seven cases of carcinoma, all of which were classed
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Fig. 423. Case 58, Dennis R., fifty years of age. Microscopical diagnosis, carcinoma. Durationfifteen months. Before treatment. as inoperable by the surgeon who referred them. None of these showed anyimprovement except relief from pain, and probably a delay in the final result. 1 The X-Ray Treatment of Carcinoma, American Medicine, .\ugust 9, 1902, pp. 217-218. 702 THE ROENTGEN RAVS IN MEDICINE AND SURGERY CANCER OF THE BREAST A summary of thirty-one cases of cancer of the breast treated by the X-raysis given in the following table : — Thirtv-oxe Cases of Canxer of the Breast treated by X-Rays Healed — Carcinoma ......... Sarcoma ........... 6 I Under Treatment — 7 Carcinoma .......... Pagets Disease .......... Scirrhous Carcinoma ......... II I I Discontinued Treatment-^ 13 Carcinoma .......... 4 Not Healed — Carcinoma . ......... Carcinomatous glands in neck after breast ..... Sarcoma 4 2I 7 31 Six of the seven cases that healed were small recurrences in the site of thegrowt

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