Word: excisional
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Nevertheless Dr. O'Brien last week awarded her a place of distinction in medical annals. "Excision of the right hemisphere," he wrote, "is not a very common procedure; it is an operation of great magnitude. From what I can gather in medical history this patient survived longer than any...
Rest palliates the stormy symptoms of exophthalmic goitre. The only cure is subtotal excision of the troublesome thyroid. The patient immediately calms down. After a time the pop eyes usually recede.
He scoffed at total excision of the thyroid. The theory is that the thyroid drives the heart more than the heart can stand and that without the thyroid's slave-driving the heart can take its own time and method of pumping blood through the coronary arteries. Thyroidectomy does...
Despite disappointments certain advances have been made during the year in the treatment and alleviation of cancer. In Chicago Dr. Loyal Edward Davis of Northwestern University Medical School & Director Max Cutler of Michael Reese Hospital tumor clinic have been treating certain brain tumors by inserting radium needles into the diseased...
Jawbones. Within each half of the upper jawbone (maxilla) is a sinus. Here occur one out of every 100 cancers. Dr. William Thomas Peyton of the University of Minnesota discourages mere surgery for the treatment of this cancer because "surgery alone, total excision of the maxilla, carries a high mortality...