Arterial ligation for irremovable cancer of pelvic organs : technic adapted and amplified / by William Seaman Bainbridge.

  • Bainbridge, William Seaman, 1870-1947.
Date:
[1911?]
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Credit: Arterial ligation for irremovable cancer of pelvic organs : technic adapted and amplified / by William Seaman Bainbridge. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    (2) If hemorrhage has been sufficiently severe or frequent to warrant the fear oi fatal return at any time. (3) If hemorrhage is sufficient to cause a con¬ stant drain on the patient’s vitality. (4) When the disease is so extensive as to ren¬ der curettage and other necessary measures dan¬ gerous because of hemorrhage. (5) When, with no contra-indicative conditions, there is reason to believe: (a) that by controlling in a measure the progress of the disease, the pain, fetor and discharge may be lessened; (b) that va¬ rious pressure symptoms may be relieved; (c) that intestinal obstruction may be corrected; (d) that other conditions giving rise to symptoms may be rectified. (6) When all other measures have failed to give any relief from the symptoms in the given case, when the patient demands that something more be done, and when there is any hope of mitigating suffering and prolonging life. Case Reports.* The histories synopsized in the appended table represent all pelvic ligation cases operated upon at the New York Skin and Cancer Hospital, on the author’s service, previous to the annual clinic, April 20, 1910, with two additional cases which are included because of their interesting nature and the remarkable improvement in the patient’s condition.** Of the twenty-four cases included in the table, » Cases III, IV, and V were treated with the Enzymes (Trypsin and Amylopsin). and reported in the Medical Record, July 17 and August 7. 1909,- and in the First Scientific Report of the Committee on Scientific Research, of the New York Skin and Cancer Hospital, 1909. The negative nature of the above report makes it presumable that the cases mentioned were not influenced by this treat¬ ment so far as any improvement was concerned. ** The entire number of cases in which the author has employed the ligation method in private or elsewhere is now forty-one. The further experience thus gained seems to fully justify the operation in selected cases.