The Natural History of a Large Cystic Tumour of a Long Bone
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In October 1936 I was consulted regarding the painful condition of the thigh of the son of a government servant in the employ of the Military Engineering Service. For over six months the boy had been complaining of increasing pain and difficulty in the right thigh on walking. The father thought that his son had always been weak on the right leg, but that recently the boy had been quite lame, and complained that
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