The practice of surgery . rcised the ingenuityof surgeons, and the books discuss the operations of Whitehead, Kocher, D. N. Eisendrath, A Plea for More Radical Operations in Cancer of the Lips andTongue, Jour. Amer. Med. Assoc, September 29, 1906. CANCER 573 Billroth, and others. Any method is satisfactory for the practical sur-geon so long as he removes the entire tongue, but the proper dissectionof the neck is a matter of primary importance. Whitehead removes thetongue with scissors through the mouth. He passes a ligature throughthe tip and draws it well forward, dissects up the organ from t
The practice of surgery . rcised the ingenuityof surgeons, and the books discuss the operations of Whitehead, Kocher, D. N. Eisendrath, A Plea for More Radical Operations in Cancer of the Lips andTongue, Jour. Amer. Med. Assoc, September 29, 1906. CANCER 573 Billroth, and others. Any method is satisfactory for the practical sur-geon so long as he removes the entire tongue, but the proper dissectionof the neck is a matter of primary importance. Whitehead removes thetongue with scissors through the mouth. He passes a ligature throughthe tip and draws it well forward, dissects up the organ from the floorof the mouth, and divides the anterior pillars of the fauces. He then se-cures the lingual arteries; passes a second ligature through the giosso-epigiottidean fold, below the point of transverse section, to secure thestump and draw it forward, and then completes the extirpation. Theparts are then thoroughly cleansed and painted with an antisepticvarnish.^ The patient is fed freely from the second day. The ligature.
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