Word: abdomen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...recently undergone a major operation. A blood clot (thrombus) breaks loose from its anchorage, floats with the blood stream until it gets stuck in an artery. Most frequent sites of this plugging are the common femoral artery in the groin (39%) and the common iliac artery in the lower abdomen (15%). Embolus here stops circulation in the entire leg and foot. Other frequent sites for emboli are the brachial artery in the elbow, affecting the forearm and hand; the popliteal (10%), affecting the lower leg and foot; the aorta, affecting the entire body...
...Hopkins patients who had benign melanoma (moles) excised with another group who suffered from malignant melanoma (black cancers). Four out of five of the cancers had started as moles. Dr. Affleck found that moles occurred most frequently on the face and neck, next most frequently on chest, back, arms, abdomen, legs. Black cancers appeared most frequently on the legs, arms, face, neck and back. "Highest incidence," noted Dr. Affleck, "is apparently in those areas most subject to trauma, the foot and the great toe being the most frequent sites." The dangerous years: 21 to 70. When a pigmented mole turns...
...used forceps (which killed the baby) and performed Caesarean sections (which killed the mother) in cases of difficult delivery. Hindus today often put a brazier of hot charcoal under the maternity bed to assist Nature. More primitive obstetricians help by jumping up & down on the pregnant woman's abdomen...
After an abdominal operation gas generally forms in the intestines, balloons the abdomen, causes the patient excruciating agony for many hours. How to prevent such postoperative gas pains was the subject of two articles by surgeons in last week's American Journal of Surgery...
Across Dr. Brooks's abdomen Surgeon John Frederick Erdmann, 71, cut a twelve-inch opening. Surgeons John J. Moorhead, 61, and Harold Denman Meeker, 60, functioned as assistants. Standing on stools and craning their heads over the surgeon's shoulders were Diagnosticians Alexander Lambert, 74; Emanuel Libman, 63; Harry Aaron Solomon...