Volume 3

Descriptive catalogue of the pathological specimens contained in the Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons of England.

  • Royal College of Surgeons of England. Museum
Date:
1882-
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Descriptive catalogue of the pathological specimens contained in the Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons of England. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    colloid degeneration. An ingrowth of the epithelium of the gum was observed near the socket of the left incisor tooth. From a woman in whom the disease had been observed for five years. Presented by Sir Wm. Fergusson, 1870. 2201. The right half of a lower jaw, with a portion of its left side, including the left incisor teeth, removed by operation. A multilocular cystic tumour, developed in the interior of the bone, extends from the middle of the ascending ramus to the first right incisor tooth. It is of an elongated oval form, and projects equally on both sides of the jaw and into the mouth. It has removed, in the progress of its growth, all the molar and the second bicuspid teeth, and has ex¬ panded, and in some situations perforated, the walls of the jaw. In these situations it is covered by the distended periosteum. An opening has been made into a cyst, in front of the coronoid process, exposing its interior, which is only partly filled with the morbid growth. The patient was a woman 50 years old. The disease had been observed for a year, and had produced intense pain. She died a month after the operation with pleuritic effusion. From the Museum of Robert Liston, Fsg. 2202. A left superior maxillary bone, with a tumour filling the antrum, which was removed by operation. A vertical section has been made from before backwards through the whole mass, the several parts of which may be traced by their relations to the second bicuspid and first molar teeth, and to the partially obliterated sockets of the second and third molar teeth. The tumour is oval in form, its chief diameters being about three inches and two inches. It completely fills the antrum, the walls of which are extended round it; and it projected on the face, in the left nostril, and backwards to the sphenoidal cells ; it is chiefly com¬ posed of a fleshy substance, with a few spicula of bone. There are some cysts in it which are filled with colloid material, and at the anterior part is an irregular cavity containing the remains of a clot of blood. In its microscopic appearances the tumour resembled the pro-
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