This Article  • References  • Full text PDF  • Send to a friend  • Save in My Folder  • Save to citation manager  • Permissions  Citing Articles  • Citation map  • Citing articles on HighWire  • Citing articles on Web of Science (156)  • Contact me when this article is cited  Related Content  • Similar articles in this journal  Social Bookmarking   What's this?

W. H. COLE, M.D.

AMA Arch Surg. 1952;65(2):264-270.

	Since this article does not have an abstract, we have provided the first 150 words of the full text PDF and any section headings.

ALL SURGEONS are aware of the relatively high incidence of local recurrence L at the suture line in primary resection and end-to-end anastomosis for carcinoma of the colon and proximal rectum. I am of the opinion that at least half of the recurrences at the suture line are local implants and I have previously called attention to this possibility.¹ It is obvious that there is enough manipulation of the tumor during the resection to result in desquamation of numerous cancer cells from the primary lesion. Moreover, we now know with the aid of the Papanicolaou stain that cancer cells desquamate profusely from ulcerating tumors. Although it is unlikely that these desquamated cells would become implanted on normal mucosa, it may be assumed that they might become implanted on open wounds or ulcerated areas and grow. There is ample evidence that cancer cells can be implanted in breast wounds during . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
CHICAGO

From the Department of Surgery, University of Illinois College of Medicine.

Footnotes
Jerome Lipin assisted in reviewing records of patients.

CiteULike    Connotea    Del.icio.us    Digg    Reddit    Technorati    Twitter     What's this?