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Show Atomic Chemical Is Used As Aid in Brain Surgery CHICAGO. Radioactive phosphorous phos-phorous produced in atomic-energy laboratories has aided in difficult diffi-cult surgery on brain tumors, three Boston doctors said. Drs. B. Selvcrstone, A. K. Solomon, Solo-mon, and W. H. Sweet said that in 14 cases they were able to locate brain tumors at the time of surgery sur-gery by the use of the isotope. Radioactive phosphorous was given the patients by injection and became concentrated in the brain tumors, they said. The doctors then used a min!a-ture min!a-ture Geiger counter, an instrument instru-ment for measuring radioactivity, as a probe to locate the tumors. They described the technique in the Journal of the American Medical Medi-cal association. |