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Author(s) -
derail iJopiqs
Publication year - 1923
Publication title -
the muslim world
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.106
H-Index - 23
eISSN - 1478-1913
pISSN - 0027-4909
DOI - 10.1111/j.1478-1913.1923.tb01934.x
Subject(s) - citation , current (fluid) , computer science , information retrieval , library science , engineering , electrical engineering
Those whose memories of practice carry them back twenty-five years must realize on reflection the complete change which during that period has occurred in the outlook of sufferers from breast cancer. At the beginning of the period local recurrence in the region of the scar was the rule rather than the exception, though the operative method of Stiles and Cheyne in this country and of Halstead in America was beginning to bear fruit. The method of Stiles and Cheyne, which was founded upon the studies of Stiles on the mode of spread of the disease in excised breasts, laid stress upon extensive undermining of the flaps in order to remove the thin peripheral extensions of the breast, and was in this respect superior to Halstead's method, which demanded an unnecessary sacrifice of all the skin covering the breast, without undermining of the flaps. A more complete study of the mode of spread of the disease showed that it extended in a circle from its point of origin by growing along the meshes of the fascial plexus, a process to which the name permeation