Abstract
The purpose of this report is to place on record what, so far as I have been able to learn, is the first successful attempt to treat by intensive deep roentgen irradiation a widely distributed sarcomatous invasion of deep tissues. I am able to demonstrate that it is technically possible and clinically permissible to administer to a patient over wide and separate areas of the body, within a limited period of treatment, the sarcoma dose of roentgen irradiation in the depth of each such area, with the result of the apparent disappearance of the neoplasm from all the involved areas. In order to establish the diagnosis, I give the complete history and clinical record. The excision of a specimen for histologic examination was, of course, not permissible. REPORT OF CASE History. —H. M., a man, aged 50, was injured about three years ago by having his right thigh crushed. The
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