Ligature of both carotid arteries for a remarkable erectile tumour of the mouth, face and neck / by J. Mason Warren.

  • Jonathan Mason Warren
Date:
[1846]
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Credit: Ligature of both carotid arteries for a remarkable erectile tumour of the mouth, face and neck / by J. Mason Warren. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    BOTH CAROTID ARTERIES FOR A REMARKABLE ERECTILE TUMOUR OF THE MOUTH, FAQE AND NECK. BY J. MASON WARREN, M. D., ONE OF THE SURGEONS TO THE MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL. WITH TWO PLATES. [From the American Journal of Medical Sciences for April, 1846.] Albert Tabur, from Maine, 23 years old, consulted me on October 1st, 1845, for an enormous tumour of the lower lip and tongue, which had supervened on a mark occupying a good part of the face, and neck, and now presented the following appearances. The head of the patient was larger than common: the left side of the face was almost wholly occupied by a discoloration, which was originally less extensive and lighter coloured, but had now attained the extent and appearance above mentioned. The right side presented a discoloration about half the extent of the left. The lower lip was much enlarged, everted, and gave three aspects: externally, the thick tumefied lip; inter¬ nally, a fungoid tumour, covered by red granulations distended by blood, as if ready to break through; the whole surmounted by an irregular ulcera¬ tion with thickened edges and a hardened base. The red granular appear¬ ance extended underneath the tongue through the ranular space to the infe¬ rior surface itself, the left half of which was enlarged to double its natural size and partially protruded between the teeth; its upper part being the seat of five or six small ulcerations. The discoloration of the face also ex¬ tended on the outside of the lip downwards over the chin and neck, cover¬ ing a space of seven or eight inches in diameter, as represented in Plate I; the whole, especially that on the face, being rather more full and distended with blood than natural.