RADIUM IN THE TREATMENT OF LYMPHANGIOMA CIRCUMSCRIPTUM

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History. —L. L., woman, aged 21, first came under my observation at the Cook County Hospital in April, 1914. She presented a tumor of the skin involving principally the right buttock and the inner surface of the right thigh and covering an irregular surface measuring approximately 8 by 15 centimeters. The tumor had been present since her earliest recollection. It was composed principally of irregularly grouped wartlike projections more than a centimeter high at the most elevated parts and of a dirty yellowish color. On close inspection, the tumor was seen to be composed of innumerable thick-walled vesicles on which had developed in places a thickened hyperkeratotic epithelium giving the wartlike appearance noted before. Parts of the tumor, however, were more flat and were bluish black, being evidently made up of blood vessels. Lying beyond the main portion of the growth were many discrete, thick walled, yellowish vesicles containing clear

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