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Case Records of the Massachusetts General Hospital
Weekly Clinicopathological Exercises
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Volume 329:43-48 July 1, 1993 Number 1
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Case 26-1993— A 73-Year-Old Man with an Enlarging Inguinal Mass 10 Years after Treatment for Prostate and Colon Cancers
Thomas J. O'Donnell, and John X. O'Connell

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A 73-year-old man was admitted to the hospital with a diagnosis of a contained, ruptured aneurysm of the left femoral artery.

The patient was a retired shipyard pipe fitter, with known exposure to asbestos. He had smoked one pack of cigarettes daily for 30 years and then switched to pipe-smoking 32 years before admission. He also had "chronic bronchitis," which was managed with theophylline, and hypertension, which was treated with enalapril. Ten years before entry a stage B1 carcinoma of the prostate gland was found and was treated at another hospital by radiation therapy with a 4-MeV linear accelerator; the . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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