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SUPERVOLTAGE RADIATION: A REVIEW OF THE CASES TREATED DURING AN EIGHT YEAR PERIOD ( 1937-1944 INCLUSIVE ) ( THE AMERICAN JOURNAL OF ROENTGENOLOGY AND RADIUM THERAPY, VOL. LV, NO. 5 ) (PARTIAL)

HOLMES, G W; SCHULZ, M D

HREX

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JOURNAL ARTICLE

1946 May 31

Never classified

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NV0702339

1994 Aug 27

2017 Dec 21

THE PURPOSE OF THIS REPORT IS TO REPORT THE RESULTS OF EIGHT YEARS' WORK WITH ROENTGEN RAYS GENERATED AT 1,200 KV., TO POINT OUT SOME OF THE ADVANTAGES AND DISADVANTAGES OF THIS FORM OF RADIATION AND, FROM THE DATA AVAILABLE, TO STATE THE TYPE OF PATIENT LIKELY TO BE BENEFITTED BY IT. THE STUDY COVERED THE PERIOD BETWEEN 1937 - 1944. A TOTAL OF 1,835 CASES WITH TUMORS, FOR THE MOST PART MALIGNANT, HAVE BEEN TREATED. IT WAS FOUND THAT DEEP-SEATED, LOCALIZED LESIONS, WHICH IN THE PAST HAVE SHOWN SOME RESPONSE TO HIGH VOLTAGE RADIATION, HAVE DONE BETTER WITH SUPERVOLTAGE RADIATION, IN THAT LIFE HAS BEEN PROLONGED AND MADE MORE COMFORTABLE. THERE IS VERY LITTLE EVIDENCE TO SHOW, HOWEVER, THAT A GREATER NUMBER OF THESE TUMORS CAN BE DESTROYED BY THIS METHOD OF TREATMENT THAN IS POSSIBLE WITH OTHER METHODS. PERHAPS THE MOST IMPORTANT ADVANTAGE OF SUPERVOLTAGE RADIATION IS DUE TO THE FACT THAT WITH IT THERE IS LESS LIKELIHOOD OF SERIOUS SKIN DAMAGE THAN WITH LOWER VOLTAGE RADIATION. IT HAS BEEN SHOWN THAT SUPERVOLTAGE RADIATION, PROPERLY APPLIED, IT IS POSSIBLE TO PRODUCE SEVERE DAMAGE TO DEEP-SEATED ORGANS WITHOUT PERMANENT INJURY TO THE OVERLYING SKIN.