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Identifier: interstatemedica1619unse (find matches)
Title: Interstate medical journal
Year: 1909 (1900s)
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Subjects: Medicine
Publisher: St. Louis, : Interstate Medical Journal
Contributing Library: The College of Physicians of Philadelphia Historical Medical Library
Digitizing Sponsor: The College of Physicians of Philadelphia and the National Endowment for the Humanities

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Figure 5.— (Private Case.) Early adeno-carcinoma of the fundus removed byvaginal hysterectomy. Operation January 14, 1908. Recovery. A bit of paperis slipped under the carcinomatous polyp in the fundus.
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Figure 6.—(Skin and Cancer Hospital.) Autopsy specimen of an inoperablecancer of the cervix, showing- hydronephrosis and hydro-ureter of one side,and almost normal kidney on the other. Almost the entire bladder and halfof the vagina is cut away, showing cancerous crater involving entire uterus.The short line to the right represents point of entrance of the ureter intothis crater (uretero-vaginal fistula). The longer line to the left representsthe remaining portion of the bladder. TAUSSIG: UTERINE CANCER 117 method in November, 1906. The patient was kept under constant ob-servation and eight months later, during Dr. Gellhorns absence fromthe city, I felt a suspicious mass, the size of a walnut, in the region ofthe left internal iliac vessels. A week later I did an exploratory sec-ondary operation. Since there were, beside this mass of glands on theleft side, a nodule the size of an acorn in the right sacral region and anenlarged gland at the point of division of the aorta, I desisted

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