The negative and positive diagnosis of cancer of the gastrointestinal tract / Lewis Gregory Cole, M.D., New York.

  • Lewis Gregory Cole
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[1915]
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Credit: The negative and positive diagnosis of cancer of the gastrointestinal tract / Lewis Gregory Cole, M.D., New York. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    is performed in the early stage before the clinical symptoms of obstruction present this type offers hope of a surgical cure. The second group of the operable cases, illus¬ trated in Fig. 7, are the indurated gastric ulcers which may or may not be malignant. Up to the present time it has seemed wise to follow the trend of general teaching, to consider that all indurated gastric ulcers are malignant or may become so at Fig. 9.—Carcinoma, first portion of transverse colon. any moment, and to advise surgical procedure for the removal of the induration and the “cancer bear¬ ing area.” These indurated areas show very distinctly and are readily demonstrated by serial rontgenography, even when the induration is so small as to require the closest scrutiny and palpation of the gastric wall after the abdomen is open, and in some cases where the Rontgen evidence is very characteristic, the ulcer can be definitely detected at the time of
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