Cystic tumours of the breast / by Thomas Bryant.

  • Bryant, Thomas, 1828-1914.
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[1886]
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    ted from Vol XLIII of the ‘ Ckiy's Hospital Reports.’] /S Pi Ik- ifSTIC TUM0UE8 OF THE BEEAST. By THOMAS BRYANT. - y » i: ; -1 fc-;' TDER this heading I propose to group all tumours of the nary glands made up of cysts, whether those cysts are nle or single, whether they contain fluid alone or are DDr less filled with adeno-fibromatous, adeno-sarcomatous, 'mo-carcinomatous intracystic growths, nail not stop to inquire into the diiferent methods by which >sts are formed, since I believe it to be impossible clinically kke out, otherwise than in exceptional cases, whether the rare due to an obstruction of a galactophorous main or 11 duct (retention cyst); or to the exudation of fluid into ! tercellular spaces of the connective tissue of the breast nar cysts); or to the growth of papules into a duct or ? from the connective tissue of the breast and their subse- ' junction. Neither can the surgeon speak with certainty : cases as to the absence or presence of an intracystic growth 5 to the nature of the growth. a large proportion of cases in which the cyst contains :^rowths a diagnosis of its nature can, however, be made, it'.e diagnosis is then more determined by signs and sym- other than those associated with the presence of a cyst, eese points attention will be drawn later on. (ould, however, for the sake of convenience and possibly of fess, divide the subject up into certain sections, and consider: The cystic degenerations of the breast as met with in the X