Lectures on tumors from a clinical standpoint.

  • John B. Hamilton
Date:
1892
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    — 13° — the round-celled sarcoma. The patient was then on I'eave of absence, and died about four months there- after. The swelling was not at that time very great, and there was no pain. There is a melanotic or pigment sarcoma, having its seat mostly in the skin, and in the choroid of the eye—sometimes in the lymphatic glands, but it may be found elsewhere. A case of melanotic cysto-sar- eoma was under my care a few years ago, in which the tumor recurred three times after extirpation. In this case the mammary gland of the right side was alone affected, and the tumor recurred at the site of operation. The patient finally'died with all the symp- toms of general anaemia accompanying the cancerous cachexia. The giant-cell sarcoma, or so-called myeloid, has its common seat in the bone, although it may appear in the mammary gland. There is a characteristic difference between all the sarcomata and adenomata ©f the mammary gland. In sarcoma, upon section the cut surface will present little] pink vascular points ©f different shades of color, which afford a pretty ready coarse means of distinguishing sarcoma from adenoma by the eye, for in adenoma, on the contrary, there is only the usual appearance of glandular struc- ture. The following table from Woodhead will be useful to you in making your comparison between sarcoma and carcinoma:
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