Word: cyst
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hour diaphragmatic hernia operation on a 76-year-old patient, a 1½-hour rectal cancer removal on an 82-year-old woman. He has also nailed a hip fracture for a 97-year-old accident victim, done intestinal resections, gall bladder, bowel cancer and ovarian cyst operations...
...trumpet call to noble deeds; it is largely a winking kaleidoscope of Oriental reminiscences, studded with startling clinical notes. Dr. May found that just as tropical forests outgrow and outbloom Western vegetation, so do some diseases in the tropics flourish with a luxuriance that amounts to melodrama. An ovarian cyst, Annamite-style, has been known to weigh more than the half-starved body in which it grew. Hernias often achieve a size "so gigantic as to have lost all possibilities of residence inside the abdomen...
...healing time safely, he offers a compromise technique. First Dr. Buie determines the direction of the cyst's channels with a probe. Then he opens up each channel, removes the normal skin above it and, if the cyst wall is reasonably healthy, stitches the wall to the surrounding skin. By using the cyst wall as skin, Dr. Buie avoids wasting much tissue. Average healing time is 30 days...
Lieut. Commander Joseph Jerome Sher in the Naval Medical Bulletin sidesteps the whole open *y. closed debate, recommends using the X-ray technique for 30 days in each cyst case before resorting to surgery. Reason: X rays in sufficient quantity will sometimes dry up a cyst, making an operation unnecessary. Advantage of this method: a patient can be on duty all the time except when he comes in for treatment...
...Rhymes with idle. Literally "hair-nest," so called because hairs grow inside the cyst. A pi lonidal cyst is supposed to result from imperfect fusion of the two halves of a body in fetal life...