. Radiotherapy and phototherapy : including radium and high-frequency currents, their medical and surgical applications in diagnosis and treatment ; for students and practitioners . ft eye which had existed for six ray was persistently applied from June 20, 1902, toMarch 17, 1903, over sixty exposures being given. Inspite of occasional evidence of improvement, there wasextension into the deeper parts. The patient was thenreferred to an eminent surgeon by Dr. Leon, who had sentthe patient to me, and the growth was deeply excised. Re-currence was prompt and a second operation was done
. Radiotherapy and phototherapy : including radium and high-frequency currents, their medical and surgical applications in diagnosis and treatment ; for students and practitioners . ft eye which had existed for six ray was persistently applied from June 20, 1902, toMarch 17, 1903, over sixty exposures being given. Inspite of occasional evidence of improvement, there wasextension into the deeper parts. The patient was thenreferred to an eminent surgeon by Dr. Leon, who had sentthe patient to me, and the growth was deeply excised. Re-currence was prompt and a second operation was done withextensive removal of bone from the orbit and upper jaw,followed by a plastic flap operation. Following this therewas further recurrence and death a few months later. In a number of open cancers here located there has beenhealing which has persisted for over a year in some two only out of seventy-one has there been known recur-rence. In Plate IX. is shown the condition before and after raytreatment in an epithelioma beneath the eye. Epithelioma of the Lip. The chief reason why epithe-lioma of the lip has not proven as amenable to the ray as PLATE IX. FIG. Epithelioma Beneath Eye of Eighteen Months Duration. FIG. 2.
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