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GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT SATORY, J. J. [Milwaukee County Hosp., Wauwatosa, Wis.] MALIGNANT CARCINOID TUMORS OF THE GASTRO- ABRAHAMSON, R. H., and HINTON, J. W. [Bellevue INTESTINAL TRACT. Am. J. Surg., 58:275-278. 1942. Hosp., New York, N. Y.] THE GASTRIC MUCOSA AS AN A report of a carcinoid tumor growing from the stump ENDOCRINE GLAND. Surg., Gynec. & 0bat., 76:147-1S8. of the appendix into the cecum with metastases to the 1943. regional lymph nodes. This is the 77th reported case of The conception is presented that the gastric mucosa can malignant carcinoid tumor.--H. G. W. act as an endocrine gland by means of hormones. There are pronounced differences in blood hormone content be- SMITH, T. E. [Baylor Univ. CoIL of Med., Dallas, Texas] PRIMARY LYMPHOID TUMORS OF THE RECTUM RE- tween the sexes, which may explain the sex discrepancy in SEMBLING INTERNAL HEMORRHOIDS. REPORT OF gastric cancer.~H. G. W. THREE CASES. J.A.M.A., 121:495-497. 1948. GARLOCK, J. H., GINZBURG, L., and GLASS A. [Mt. The 3 cases here reported are the only ones to be found Sinai Hosp., New York, N. Y.] COMPLICATIONS AND in the literature.--H. G. W. CAUSES OF MORTALITY OF THE SURGICAL TREATMENT STONE, H. B., and McLANAHAN, S. [Baltimore, Md.] OF CARCINOMA OF THE COLON AND RECTUM. Surg., Gynec. & 0bat., 76:51-59. 1945. RESECTION AND IMMEDIATE ASEPTIC ANASTOMOSIS FOR CARCINOMA OF THE COLON. J.A.M.A., 120:1362-18S5. A discussion of operative technic.--H. G. W. 1942. KIRKLIN, B. R., and MacCARTY, W. C., Jr. [Mayo Clinic, Based on an experience of 147 cases, the conclusion is Rochester, Minn.] INCIDENCE OF MALIGNANCY IN PRE- reached that, in carcinoma of the colon, resection and PYLORIC ULCERS. J.A.M.A., 120:735-735. 1942. aseptic anastomosis is the ideal operative procedure.-- The prevalent assumption that prepyloric ulcers are H. G. W. more likely to be malignant than ulcers situated elsewhere in the stomach has been challenged in recent years. To BONE AND BONE MARROW 9obtain information that might help to solve the question, LEVITT, A., and LEVY, D. S. [Buffalo City Hosp., Buffalo, ulcerous prepyloric lesions observed roentgenologically and N.Y.] MULTIPLE MYELOMA. Ann. Int. Med., 1~':863-873. operated on at the Mayo Clinic during the period 1937 to 1942. 1941 inclusive were reviewed. All ulcerating carcinomas This case of a 25 year old male was remarkable for the that had been diagnosed roentgenologically were excluded total absence of Bence-Jones proteinuria and for an ab- from consideration. After other exclusions made necessary sorption of bone so extensive that the body of the patient by the roentgenologic approach, there remained 61 ul- seemed like a flattened, collapsed, fluctuant mass.-- cerating carcinomas and 71 ulcers; of the latter, 63 were H. G. W. benign and 8 (11.3%) malignant. These figures are com- SPEED, K. [Presbyterian Hosp., Chicago, Ill.] POST- patible, though not identical, with the generally accepted METASTATIC SURVIVAL OF 0STEOGENIC SARCOMA. Surg., Gynec. & Obst., 76:189-146. 1943. estimate that from 10 to 12% of all gastric ulcers prove A report of the survival for 13 years of a patient with an to be malignant. This study thus supports the newer view osteogenic sarcoma of the femur alad numerous pulmonary that prepyloric ulcers are not more often carcinomatous metastases.--H. G. W. than are gastric ulcers in other locations.--H. G. W.

PICKWORTH, M. E. [San Jose, Calif.] MULTIPLE BLOOD VESSELS ADENOMATOSIS OF THE COLON. CASE REPORTS. Am. BAILEY, W., and KISKADDENv W. S. [Los Angeles, J. Surg., 58:254-257. 1942. Calif.] TREATMENT OF HEMANGIOMATA, WITH SPECIAL Three cases of multiple adenomatosis of the colon are REFERENCE TO UNSATISFACTORY RESULTS. Radiology, presented, in all of which malignancy had developed. One 38:552-561. 1942. patient had a family history of bowel malignancy.-- Success in the treatment of hemangiomas often de- H. G. W. pends on selection of the appropriate form of therapy. Radiation usually gives poor results in capillary hemangio- SAPHIR, 0., and PARKER, M. L. [Michael Xeese Hosp., Chicago, Ill.] LINITIS PLASTICA TYPE OF CARCINOMA. mas or "port wine stain" since doses large enough to Surg., Gynec. & 0bst., 76 : 206-213. 1943. produce permanent skin injury are necessary to destroy the Of the 30 cases of linitis plastica observed, 26 involved mature capillary endothelium. The hypertrophic endo- the stomach, 3 the large intestine, and 1 the gall bladder. thelial hemangioma or "strawberry mark" is made up of The time interval between the onset of symptoms and masses of proliferating endothelium and generally re- death was much shorter than with other types of cancer sponds well to radiation. Surgical excision is usually the and the survival time after operation was very brief. treatment of choice in cavernous hemangioma, although Metastasis to the liver was found only 3 times, but among radiation may sometimes be used. Sclerosing solutions, 6 females the ovaries were involved 3 times. It is very carbon dioxide snow, and electrocoagulation have been questionable whether linitis plastica, in the sense of a successfully used but have several disadvantages. The purely inflammatory, nonmalignant lesion, exists.-- technic of surface and interstitial radium and radon ap- H. G. W. plication is discussed in detail.--C. E. D.

Correction The author of the paper entitled "The Distribution of Doses of Radioactive Phosphorus in Leukemic Patients," Cancer Research, 3:334-336. 1943, wishes it said that me. in lines 5, 11, and 12 on page 336 should have been /,c.

Cancer Res 1943;3:424.

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