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W Odling-Smee

Publications and source records attributed to W Odling-Smee.

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PubMed1981

High colloidal uptake in axillary nodes with metastatic disease.

Axillary lymphoscintigraphy using 99Tcm antimony sulphide colloid has been carried out in 29 patients with suspected breast cancer and was correlated with histology. Of the 23 with proved tumour, axillary node metastases were found in 19 and, although 10 did have diminished uptake on the side of the lesion, 5 had an equal uptake in both sides and 4 had an increased uptake on the side of the lesion. Further, some of the nodes in which the high uptake had occurred were those heavily infiltrated by tumour. It is concluded that: a, lymphoscintigraphy with antimony sulphide colloid is not a reliable technique for the detection of metastatic disease in the regional nodes; b, any lymphoscintigraphy with this or any other agent requires more meticulous histological correlation than hitherto before it can be assumed to have any proved clinical value.

Antimony↗
PubMed1981

Do patients read breast self-examination booklets?

If a campaign to encourage women to examine their breasts for lumps is to succeed, it is necessary for women to read the literature produced. An attempt was made to estimate whether such literature was read, and in a group of women 90.6 per cent read the booklet, and 15.9 per cent altered their behaviour. There were several other non-numerical indicators which strongly suggested that women read the literature. A large-scale study is now under way.

Breast Neoplasms↗
PubMed1976

Pressure changes in varicose veins.

Pressures in the superficial leg veins of 24 patients with varicose veins and 6 normal controls were studied. In the controls there was no rise in pressure in the veins on increasing the intra-abdominal pressure, but in the patients with varicose veins pressure rose significantly. Squatting was no better than sitting in preventing transmission of intra-abdominal pressure to the leg veins. It was concluded that the difference in the positions adopted for defaecation is not the cause of the wide variation in the geographical distribution of varicose veins.

Cough↗