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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    MR. A. ERNEST MAYNUW. 72 over an area two and a half inches in diameter. Towards its peripliery it shelves off* into the neighbouring tissues except where it is connected with dilated vessels. On the surface of the tumour the skin is in places exceedingly thin, and appears as if at any time it might give way. At one spot is seen the cicatrix of the recent rupture. Pulsation is very mai'ked. Pressure empties the tumour to a considerable extent. Fig. 1.—Cirsoid aneurysm of the scalp. Diagrammatic representation of the tortuous and dilated vessels passing to the tumour. (Jn examining carefully the other parts of the scalp, numer- ous dilated and tortuous vessels are seen passing upwards from the basal portion of the vault towards the tumour. Some can be plainly traced into the growth, while others dis- appear short of reaching it. The common feature of all these vessels is their tortuosity, more marked, however, in the arteries than in the veins. These enlarged vessels appear to bo the normal vascular channels of the scalp. Thus, on the left side of the head (see Fig. 1), both temporal vein and artery are involved; on the right side (see Fig. 2) also the temporal
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