Identifier: americanjournroen07ameruoft (find matches)
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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Fig. 4. Fig. 5. Fig. 6. idly growing mass appeared in the scar tis- 2). On May 9, 1916. Dr. Emmett Rixfordsue and it was excised, hut recurred within a did a thoraco-scapular amputation, fromyear and was again removed. A )ear later, which the i)atient made an uneventful re-
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FiG. 7. Fig. 8. excision was again attempted and still later,a fourth excision was done. At the time of entrance to the San Francis-co Hospital, the arm was markedly enlargedand showed a large nodular tumor mass. Fig. o. Fig. 10. covery. Dr. W. Ophuls reported that thee.xamination of the s()ecimen showed aspindle and small celled sarcoma. In Septem-ber, 1917, sixteen months following theoperation, the patient returned to the hospi- 288 Secondary Hypertrophic Osteo-Arthropathy tal with a large mass at the site of the ampu-tation, with cHnical evidence of pulmonaryinvolvement and complaining of pain in theknees. Roentgen examination showed fluid in thechest with multiple rounded shadows of in-creased density throughout hoth lung fields,typical of metastatic malignancy (Fig. 3).The hand and the feet showed marked club-

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