Free movement after Halstead's amputation of the breast

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Free movement after Halstead's amputation of the breast. St Bartholomew's Hospital Archives & Museum. Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0). Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Black and white photograph of a woman two years after amputation of the left breast and removal of the axillary glands for cancer. There is no local recurrence, and the movements of the left arm are free. There was, however, metastatic growth in the pelvis and elsewhere.

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