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Arm of a woman with secondary sarcomatous tumours
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Arm of a woman with secondary sarcomatous tumours

Mark, Leonard Portal

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Watercolour of the arm of a patient, who had an unusual form of sarcoma on the left cheek. The drawing shows numerous secondary sarcomatous tumours of the same character as the primary growth on the cheek. The secondary tumours were first observed six weeks after the removal of the sarcoma on the face.

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