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SURGERY
Publication year - 1921
Publication title -
medical journal of australia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.904
H-Index - 131
eISSN - 1326-5377
pISSN - 0025-729X
DOI - 10.5694/j.1326-5377.1921.tb60694.x
Subject(s) - citation , computer science , information retrieval , library science
Ceeciierelli of Parma pointed out that surgical interference was most developed in relation to cysts, licemorrhage, calculi, and suppurative or gangrenous pancreatitis. The chief symptoms of pancreatic disease are loss of flesh, presence of fat in the stools, sugar in the urine, bronze coloration of the skin, jaundice, and pain. As complete removal of the organ is incompatible with life, interference is confined to partial extirpation, preferably of the tail. Mayo Robson was able to speak from personal experience, having operated 011 forty cases of pancreatic disease. He had devoted special attention to cancer and pancreatitis. Of cancer he had seen over fifty cases. Excision can seldom be feasible or justifiable, except in cases in which the disease is limited to the body or tail of the organ, and then only when it is caught in an early stage. In fifteen cases he