Observations on neuroma, with cases and histories of the disease.

  • Wood, William, 1783-1858.
Date:
[1829]
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Credit: Observations on neuroma, with cases and histories of the disease. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    had commenced. In some cases the morbid en¬ largement would appear to have begun in the cel¬ lular tissue in the proximity of the nerve, to which it had gradually extended ; so that, in its progress, the nerve and its coverings had become completely in¬ volved in the disease. Unless tumours, however, which commence in textures external to the sheath of the nerve, shall come to implicate the nerve it¬ self, they should not be considered as cases of Neu¬ roma. More frequently, I believe, the diseased action in Neuroma, producing enlargement and alteration of structure, commences in the neurilema, forming the external sheath of the nerve, or its connecting cel¬ lular substance; or, in the minute processes of the neurilema, which are sent off, from the general sheath, to form coverings for the different nervous fibres, or fasciculi of fibres, which, by their union, form the nerve. Sometimes, though rarely, the diseased mass seems to consist almost entirely of a cyst containing a fluid; as in the case operated on, and reported by Cheselden. At other times, it is in part solid, and in part fluid; more frequently it is solid throughout. In one of the cases to be detailed, the tumour con¬ sisted almost entirely of a firm membranous cyst, containing a thick fluid; in three it consisted partly of fluid, and partly of a solid substance, of greater or less consistency; and, in twenty, it was entirely of a solid texture. The solid part assumes a dif¬ ferent degree of consistence, and a different colour
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