. The American journal of roentgenology, radium therapy and nuclear medicine . he liope-lessness of these cases) to justify tis in itsapplication. The patients are ustially per- Open jMethod of Surgery in Deep-Seated Recurrent Cancer 56^ fectly willing to undergo one more opera-tion, because they have usually lost allhope of getting well. To what extent we may go in the re-moval of the tissues overlying the cancer,is illustrated in Fig. 4, showing three casesof recurrent carcinoma of the neck, all ofwhom I operated in July, 1919, beingtreated with radium and .v-ray. The com-plete histories of
. The American journal of roentgenology, radium therapy and nuclear medicine . he liope-lessness of these cases) to justify tis in itsapplication. The patients are ustially per- Open jMethod of Surgery in Deep-Seated Recurrent Cancer 56^ fectly willing to undergo one more opera-tion, because they have usually lost allhope of getting well. To what extent we may go in the re-moval of the tissues overlying the cancer,is illustrated in Fig. 4, showing three casesof recurrent carcinoma of the neck, all ofwhom I operated in July, 1919, beingtreated with radium and .v-ray. The com-plete histories of these three cases willappear in future publications when time curetted, part of the cheek removed, andthe entire area of the neck, including thesupraclavicular region, which was exen-terated and left exposed. The carotid andjugular in this case were excised. In Case C, a similar procedure waspursued, the jugular was divided, but theear in this case was not involved andtherefore was left intact. The depth of thewoimds is best demonstrated by viewingthe stereoscopic
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