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...Emergency Medicine, he describes a typical course of treatment. If the victim is still out in the field several hours away from professional help, says Mills, rescuers should quickly attempt to thaw the frostbitten part; one method is to tuck a frozen hand, say, under the rescuer's armpit. The temperature, in any case, should be about 100° F.; anything much higher than body temperature can cause further harm, as can refreezing. To protect the fragile tissue, it should be wrapped in clean padding; fingers or toes are often splinted to keep them from bruising contact or pressure...
...Radical mastectomy is not as radical as it purports to be," Weber said. While radical surgery, removes the lymph nodes from the armpit, cancer also spreads to the neck and internal mammary lymph nodes under the breastbone, Weber said...
...reconstructions would continue to rise. Self-examination and mass screening programs are detecting an increasing number of early breast cancers* before they spread; that makes it possible to perform less disfiguring operations than the standard radical mastectomy, in which not only the breast but the lymph nodes under the armpit and the muscles of the chest are removed. As a result, doctors predict that many of the 89,000 women who will undergo breast surgery this year will be able to take advantage of reconstructive surgery...
PAULINE KAEL called it "the cattleprod," the theory being that today's audiences are so numb from perennial TV that a movie in a theater needs a long blunt instrument wired with several hundred volts and applied to an armpit, perhaps, or some appropriate erogenous zone, in order to elicit the merest twitch of a response...
...made his way out of the back of the patrol car (which had no door or window handles). In trying to escape, they said, Young had run into a fence and broken his neck. But Marshall County Coroner Osborne Bell found a bullet wound in Young's left armpit, and no evidence of a broken neck. When he confronted the police with his findings, they literally bolted from the hospital...