Um, Letâs Rethink That Salute (1930s) Again, in his book To the Flag: The Unlikely History of the Pledge of Allegiance, Richard J. Ellis explains that by the mid-1930s, Americans had begun to notice eerie similarities between the Bellamy salute and the âHeil Hitlerâ salute.
A lumbar puncture may be used to collect a sample of cerebrospinal fluid in order to detect the presence of certain types of cancer or infection. Lumbar punctures may also be used to inject medications, such as spinal anesthesia or chemotherapy drugs.
Squamous cell carcinoma cancer often invades the bony structures of the jaw, so an x-ray of the skull may be done before or after the biopsy. Mouth cancer is very aggressive and can spread to the lungs and lymph nodes, therefore, a CT scan may be requested to check for other tumor masses within the upper body.