The American journal of roentgenology, radium therapy and nuclear medicine (1906) (14570378470)

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Title: The American journal of roentgenology, radium therapy and nuclear medicine

Year: 1906 (1900s)

Authors: American Radium Society American Roentgen Ray Society

Subjects: Radiotherapy X-rays

Publisher: Springfield, Ill. C.C. Thomas

Contributing Library: Gerstein - University of Toronto

Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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thoccasional intervals of rest of a week or tendays. Fifteen treatments were given in all,the last being given Oct. 4, 1917, twomonths after the first. At that time thegrowth had entirely disappeared, only asmall transparent scar remaining. Thecondition has remained cured to this date,two years later. In addition to the lesionon the eyeball, this patient had innum-erable pigmented spots all over the faceand forehead, some of which had brokendown and formed small ulcerations. She addition, we treated the entire forehead,which was thickly sprinkled with keratoticpigmented spots, with smaller dosesthrough a thin filter. The ulcerated areasall responded to treatment and the con-dition generally was much improved. Atthis time there are no areas on the facewhich could be called malignant, althoughthe skin is much atrophied and there aremany scars and many pigmented spots.The final outcome of this case is of courseproblematical, but the remaining eye hasbeen saved and the disease on the face

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Ki< ASE II. Note tiimnr on inner sideof right eyeball. (\~.iv II. Ki lilt after treatment;no appreeiable scar. said these spots had been present as longas she could remember, although hermother said that when she was a smallbaby she had not a blemish on her skin.We called in consultation Dr. John G.Burke, who pronounced the case one ofxeroderma pigmentosum, and advised usto try .r-ray treatment on the skin lesions,as no known treatment was particularlysuccessful. We treated in all eight discreteepitheliomata which had ulcerated, usingthe regular massive dose treatment com-monly employed for epitheliomata. In halted for the time being. From the man-ner in which the epitheliomatous lesionsof the face responded to .v-ray treatment,I would feel quite hopeful of keeping thiscase going indefinitely, provided she seekstreatment promptly as soon as freshlesions occur. Case II. Justine R., male, age sixteen.This boy is a brother of Case I. He pre-sented himself on June 16, 1919, with agrowt

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