Röntgen ray diagnosis and therapy / by Carl Beck ... with 322 illustrations in the text.

  • Beck, Carl, 1856-1911.
Date:
1904
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    Pig. 312.—Sarcoma of Leg Show ing Gangrene in its Centre. the patient's genera] health is good. (loley's experience showed that in several c ases of inoperable round-celled sarcoma in which his toxine-treatment had been tried and Tailed, the Rontgen-ray caused entire disappearance of the tu- mours. Yet all of these cases are of recent dale, and in all there has been a speedy recurrence. In a larger number of his cases of inoperable sarcoma, the tumours disappeared entirely un- der the toxines, and remained well from three to ten years after treat- ment. In all he had 20 patients with inoperable sarcoma remain well from two to ten years after the disappearance of the tumour under the mixed toxine treatment. Of these, 15 patients were well from five to ten years. In observing the effect of the Ront- gen ray upon 3 cases of spindle-celled sarcoma, it was found to be exceedingly slight. Yet just in this class of cases— the spindle-celled—the result of the tox- ine treatment has been by far the most satisfactory, nearly 50 per cent of the cases of inoperable, spindle-celled sar- coma having disappeared under the treatment in his own experience. In the round-celled variety, however, upon which the influence of the toxines is much less pronounced, the immediate results from the Rontgen-ray treatment seem to have been best. In a very large inoperable round-celled sarcoma two-thirds of the growth had disap- peared under the toxine treatment, and at this point the Rontgen-ray was used in „ „,„ ^ 1 fa Fig. 313. — Proliferating addition to the toxines with the result Sarcoma of Leg.