A case of extensive cirsoid aneurysm of the scalp / by A. Ernest Maylard, M.B., B.S., Lond., Surgeon, Victoria Infirmary, Glasgow.

  • Maylard, A. Ernest (Alfred Ernest), 1854-1947
Date:
[1899]
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Credit: A case of extensive cirsoid aneurysm of the scalp / by A. Ernest Maylard, M.B., B.S., Lond., Surgeon, Victoria Infirmary, Glasgow. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    There is little to add regarding the further progress of the case. The wound healed rapidly and well; and the patient left the Infirmary on the last day of December cured of his complaint. There existed no indication of any dilated or pulsating vessels in the scalp. It may seem that I have entered with undue prolixity into the description of the operation performed. But when it is remembered that fatal results from excessive haemorrhage have more than once occurred in the attempt to excise tumours of this nature from the scalp, it would not have been right in describing the operation to omit any step or precau- tion taken in its performance. It is quite possible that I might have successfully excised the tumour at the same operation as that in which I applied ligatures to all the difierent ves.sels. But I must own to the somewhat delusive hope which I had, after securing these ves.sels, that the complete ce.ssation of pulsation which followed might end in cure. Against, however, any such possibility was the past record of numerous failures which had followed similar attempts. The treatment by electrolysis which we discussed was abandoned in the belief that careful incision would prove a much more rapid and certain way of dealing with the tumour. The practically bloodless nature of the operation was entirely due to the previous insertion of the acupressure needles and the way in which all bleeding points were secured as one needle after another was removed separately. [The photographs accompanying this paper were kindly taken for me by Dr. Watt.]
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