Conservative Surgery in Malignant Disease
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Dear Sir,?The paper on ' Conservative surgery in malignant disease' by Dr. T. Howard Somervell, appearing in your March issue, opens up several avenues of partly criticism and partly controversy. Dr. Somervell gives a sarcoma patient ' a full course of deep x-ray therapy' to the growth and its immediate neighbourhood before operation. This course consists of five minutes of 5 milliamps at a 5-inch spark gap (90,000 volts), with a filter of 1 millimetre of aluminium at 15-inch target?skin distance. This dose is given every day for 10 days. I submit that such a course neither constitutes deep x-ray therapy
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عنوان ژورنال:
دوره 70 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2016