Identifier: breastitsanomali00deav (find matches)
Title: The breast: its anomalies, its diseases, and their treatment
Year: 1917 (1910s)
Authors: Deaver, John B. (John Blair), 1855-1931
Subjects: Breast Breast X-rays Breast Diseases Breast Neoplasms Radiotherapy
Publisher: Philadelphia, P. Blakiston's Son & Co
Contributing Library: Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine
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ar tissue which separates the breast from the aponeurosis of the external obliquemuscle is reached. With a turn of the finger the gland is turned up so that its loweraspect is exposed, and the pus pockets are easily evacuated. The finger is introducedinto the opening thus made and all of the cavities can be explored. Drainage tubes areintroduced at the most dependent part of the abscess after which the breast is returnedto its normal position and several sutures inserted. The after-treatment is the sameas that for other forms of operative treatment. Morestins Areolar Skin Incision.—This operation is intended for the cure of mam-mary abscess with minimal subsequent deformity of the breast. According to Morestin,it is applicable to all cases except those in which the skin is deeply affected. We haveemployed it in the treatment of superficial abscesses within the areola, and the resultsobtained have been satisfactory, but we much prefer more free incision and drainage in i8o THE BREAST
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