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REPORT OF A CASE

HARRY N. COMANDO, M.D.

Arch Surg. 1935;30(2):228-235.

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Reports of cases of primary isolated Hodgkin's disease of the stomach are sufficiently rare in the literature to warrant the report of another case. Since the time of Billroth, Hodgkin's disease has been definitely placed in the category of medical diseases. The reason that this disease has come to be considered nonsurgical is not so much the technical surgical difficulties entailed as the unfavorable end-results that have followed operative treatment. However, Singer,¹ in a splendid article in 1931, after a careful résumé of the entire literature, cited sufficient evidence to challenge this conception of the disease when the pathologic process is limited to the gastro-intestinal tract. In his article he cited the reports of six cases which he had found in the literature and added one case of his own. A careful search of the literature from 1931 to the present time has failed to disclose any additional cases. . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
NEWARK, N. J.

From the Surgical Service of Dr. Harry N. Comando, Newark Beth Israel Hospital.

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