Word: leukoplakia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Just before his 67th birthday, a bearded, scholarly-looking man suffering from leukoplakia appeared at the clinic of Vienna Rhinologist Marcus Hajek. The patient had a group of hard, smooth white spots on the inside of the jaw; expecting a trivial operation, he had not mentioned the visit to his family. But the operation went badly-the growth proved cancerous. In response to an alarming phone call, the patient's wife and daughter rushed to the clinic, found him seated on a kitchen chair with blood all over his clothes. He was too ill to go home...
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