Case 41491
- 8 December 1955
- journal article
- case report
- Published by Massachusetts Medical Society in New England Journal of Medicine
- Vol. 253 (23) , 1030-1036
- https://doi.org/10.1056/nejm195512082532308
Abstract
Presentation of Case First admission. A thirty-eight-year-old woman had a radical mastectomy for an undifferentiated carcinoma of the right breast that had metastasized to the axillary lymph nodes. X-ray examination of the chest showed an area of calcification in the apex of the right lung. A blood Hinton test was negative. Second admission (eighteen years later). Postoperatively, the patient received 1600 r to the pelvis for sterilization and 3300 r to the right portion of the chest and axilla. On periodic visits to the tumor clinic over the next eighteen years she was found to be essentially well. A roentgenogram . . .Keywords
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