Röntgen ray diagnosis and therapy (1904) (14571673208)

Identifier: rntgenraydiagn00beck (find matches)

Title: Röntgen ray diagnosis and therapy

Year: 1904 (1900s)

Authors: Beck, Carl, 1856-1911

Subjects: Radiotherapy Diagnosis, Radioscopic

Publisher: New York, London, D. Appleton and Company

Contributing Library: Columbia University Libraries

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flg. 294.—osteosarcoma illustratedby Fig. 293, one teak later. 412 THE ROKTGEN RAYS tended, and now the inguinal area was also irradiated every sec-ond day for ten minutes. Two weeks after the removal a derma-

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Fig. 295.—Skiagraph of Case illustrated by Figs. 293 and 294. titis set in, which prevented further irradiation. The patient suc-cumbed suddenly to metastasis of the lungs. The disease had SPECIAL INDICATIONS 413 reached a stage in which final recovery could hardly be expected,and it is to be regretted thai the thought of the Rontgotherapy did not suggest itself to the author at an earlier stage, as treat-ment might then have effected a local cure before metastasis couldhave taken place. But the course proved the efficiency of the rays,because the fact cannot be denied that, in great contrasi to theformer course, after the preceding extirpation no relapse wasobserved. The fact that well-developed sarcomatous tissue shrankand cicatrized is also beyonddoubt. Similar experience was gainedin the case of a lady of forty-twoyears, who showed the signs of sar-coma of the orbit in the fall of1901. Enucleation of the eyeballhad to be undertaken, but recur-rence in the frontal bone tookplace

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