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AUTOPSY FEATURES IN SCUBA DIVING FATALITIES
Author(s) -
S O Waller
Publication year - 1970
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.1326-5377.1970.tb50024.x
Subject(s) - scuba diving , citation , advertising , psychology , history , computer science , library science , oceanography , business , geology
Some of the points which you make are underlined by a 46-year-Old patient of mine, who presented to me in March this year with vague lumps in the left breast, present for 12 months. So vague were these swellings that her local medical officer had been reassuring her for some months, and I myself was reluctant to submit her to biopsy. However, her anxiety was such that biopsy was carried out within ten days of my first seeing her. Frozen section examination was performed from two widely separated areas of the breast. Again the operative findings were such that the patient was on the way back to the recovery ward when Pathology reported that both biopsies had shown Infiltrating carcinoma. Immediate standard radical mastectomy was performed, and subsequent histology revealed microscopic involvement of axillary glands. In addition, lobular carcinoma-in-situ was noted, and the carcinoma was thought to be of multicentric origin. The article by Benfield and others quoted by you was, at that time, featured In Modern Medtcine of Australia., and drew one's attention to the bilateral nature of the disease.