Primary reticulum cell sarcoma of bone. Report of two cases with bone regeneration following roentgenotherapy

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Primary Reticulum Cell Sarcoma of Bone. Report of Two Cases With Bone Regeneration Following Roentgenotherapy : By Xzutu, Chan and ChihKuang Hsieh, Ann. Surg. 115: 280 (February), 1942. A Chinese housewife, aged 59, was first seen in the Surgical Clinic of the I’. U. M. C. Hospital, June 18, 1938. The complaint was swelling in the left preaurieulnr l,egion for three months, and local pain in the same area for two months. The pain was dragging or burning in charact,er and occurred only occasionally. The previous mont,h the patient experienced numbness in the left half of her lower lip. Five years previously she had suffered from “toothache” for which most of her teeth were extracted. There had been an area of swelling in the thyroid region since the age of 16. Physical Examination,-The face was asymmetric due to the presence of a round, firm swelling, 7 cm. in diameter, which was fixed to the ramus of the mandible on the left side. It was slightly tender. The overlying skin appeared normal. There was an enlarged, firni but freely movable lymph node, 2 cm. in diameter, just behind the angle of the mandible. Enlarged lymph nodes were not found elsewhere. Hypothesia was present in the left half of the lower lip. Inside the mouth, the area of swelling could neither be seen nor palpated. The uvula was deviat,ed slightly to the right. X-ray.-Roentgenograms revealed a marked destructive lesion in the left ramus of the mandible. Tissue aspirated from the mass was thought questionably to be lympho-epithelioma. Final diagnosis was reticulum cell sarcoma. T. J.

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