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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sease. Case I.—Mrs. S., aged 45, was referred to me by Dr. Charles Johnson of Charleston, S. C, Oct. 9,1902. She had had her left breast amputated two years previously. During six months she had beensuffering from a recurrence in the scar, i J-j inches in diameter, firmly adherent, tender and painful. Activetreatment was continued with fractional doses during two years, during which a mild dermatitis had beenproduced several times, but which resulted in a complete disappearance of all evidence of the disease.Treatment was then interrupted, and two years later, the patient returned with a secondary degenera-tion, radio-dermatitis. This area then covered about i inch in diameter. It was excised andexamined microscopically, but was not found to be malignant. She was still living, and apparentlywell, when last heard from, 11 years after beginning the treatment for the recurrence. In this case, thetreatment by the Roentgen rays, given even during the early stages, when technic was poorly
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Fig. 266.—Case No. 7. Roentgenogram made February 23, 1916. Showing complete healing ofthe ribspreviously occupied by the metastatic carcinoma. developed, resulted in an apparent cure, which has lasted during a period of approximately 11 or prob-ably even 14 years. The secondary degeneration resulting from a dermatitis could probably have beenavoided by present-day technic. Case 2.—Mrs. B., aged 56, referred by Dr. John B. Deaver, Dec. i, 1910. She had an operation forremoval of the breast three months previously. At the time of beginning treatment, there was distinctevidence of recurrence in the axillary and supra-clavicular regions, and we believed there was somepulmonary involvement, and as a result of a Roentgen examination believed there was involvement ofthe mediastinum. Under Roentgen rays there was some reduction in the disease, but in April, 1911, Dr.Deaver still found deep a.^illary and supra-clavicularinvolvementassociated with swelling of the arm, andwith pain. Treatme

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