The campaign against cancer : educational, experimental and clinical / by William Seaman Bainbridge.

  • Bainbridge, William Seaman, 1870-1947.
Date:
1911
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Credit: The campaign against cancer : educational, experimental and clinical / by William Seaman Bainbridge. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    — li¬ the dura mater. The wound was packed with gauze and allowed to granulate pre¬ paratory to doing a plastic operation. A subsequent slight recurrence necessitated a second operation, when an area of the dura, about the size of a ten-cent piece, which was involved, was removed, exposing the brain. The cavity was again packed. For a time the cerebro-spinal fluid came from the wound. Finally, however, the area granu¬ lated over. Plastic operation was performed at later date. Fig. 10 shows the condition upon admis¬ sion to the hospital, being a photographic copy of the wax cast taken at the time. Fig. 11 shows the cavity after excision of Fig. 11. B. G. Granulating cavity after ex¬ cision of epithelioma but before plastic operation. the growth and before the plastic operation. The lines of incision converging toward the ear may be seen, showing the flap which was turned back for the purpose of removing the parotid gland, and the lymphatics and fascia lying along the ramus of the inferior max¬ illa, with the glands in the supetior carotid triangle. Fig. 12 shows the condition after the plastic operation, the flaps for which were taken from the forehead and neck. Fig. 13 gives a good idea of how the patient looks today. With the hair brought down over the forehead the scar from the flap does not show at all, and with the colored spectacle, specially constructed, over the affected side, the deformity is not so ap¬ parent as might be imagined from the depth of the excision of the diseased tissue. There are no signs of recurrence at the present time, two years after operation. In a letter to us, written April 17, 1911, the patient says she is “enjoying perfect health.” Group II.—Nose. Case X.—H. B., male, aged 74. Epithe¬ lioma of the tip of nose and left side of cheek, just below the eye. Fig. 14 shows the large and disfiguring growth on the tip of the nose, extending about one and a half inches from the nose. This began five years before admission, as a small wart-like ex¬ crescence, easily removable. Six months later the growth under the eye, also shown Fig. 12. B. G. Two years after plastic operation. in Fig. 14, developed from a similar begin¬ ning, and was also easily eradicable. The patient, in this case as in the preceding, neglected to seek medical advice until the conditions reached the proportions shown in the illustration. Complete and thorough excision of the epitheliomata was resorted to by us, fol¬ lowed by a plastic operation, the result of which is shown in Fig. 15. The patient promised to return to us upon the slightest evidence of a recurrence, and inasmuch as we have heard nothing from him for more than two years we take it that he has had no further trouble. He has moved out of the city. Address unknown.