The Treatment of Polycythemia Vera by Spray Irradiation
- 15 January 1948
- journal article
- Published by Massachusetts Medical Society in New England Journal of Medicine
- Vol. 238 (3) , 78-82
- https://doi.org/10.1056/nejm194801152380302
Abstract
IN 1932 the treatment of polycythemia vera by spray irradiation was instituted at the Massachusetts General Hospital by the Department of Radiology at the suggestion of Dr. Francis T. Hunter. The results of treatment at the end of a ten-year period were presented by Robbins.1 The purpose of this study is to report upon the present status of the original group of patients and also upon the results of treatment in 8 additional patients. This method of treating polycythemia vera has proved the most successful of any of the procedures that have been tried at this hospital, and it has . . .Keywords
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