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J L Alexander

Publications and source records attributed to J L Alexander.

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PubMed1976

The pros and cons of outpatient breast biopsy.

A review of the 130 breast biopsies performed on women during the past three years at the Martin Luther King, Jr, General Hospital showed that 90 were performed on outpatients and 40 on inpatients. Of the 90 outpatient procedures, 61 were under local anesthesia and 29 under general. Only three outpatient biopsy specimens were malignant and required subsequent patient admission to the hospital for mastectomy at an interval of 9 to 14 days. In all three, the axillary nodes were uninvolved. In two, no residual tumor was found in the mastectomy specimen.

Adenofibroma↗
PubMed1975

Changes in 87mSr concentractions in skeletal metastases in patients responding to cyclical combination chemotherapy for advanced breast cancer.

Serial 87mSr bone scintigrams were performed on a series of patients being treated by cyclical combination chemotherapy for metastatic breast cancer. All the patients investigated responeded to the chemotherapy, but initially the scintigrams showed an apparent deterioration, in that the tumor-to-normal isotope uptake ratios increased. Following this initial "flare" the scintigram appearance improved with a decrease in the tumor-to-normal uptake ratio. It is suggested that deterioration in the scintigram in the early stages of treatment should not be regarded as an indication that the patient is failing to respond.

Bone Neoplasms↗