Volume 1

Descriptive catalogue of the pathological specimens contained in the Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons of England.

  • James Paget
Date:
1882-1885
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Descriptive catalogue of the pathological specimens contained in the Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons of England. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by King’s College London. The original may be consulted at King’s College London.

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    Subseries 8. Erectile Tumours. Angeioma; Ncevus ; Cavernous Tumour; Vascular Tumour : 407 to 410. 407. An erectile tumour, measuring nearly two inches in its longest diameter. It is laid open to show its interior, which is entirely cavernous. The spaces between the trabeculae are very wide, some being an eighth of an inch in diameter; and a few of them are filled with solid, partially decolorized clot. From a young lady aged 16. The tumour, which had been ohserved since early childhood, was situated on the hack, extend- ing from the inferior angle of the right scapula downwards for five iuches, and resting on the subjacent muscles. Por a few months before removal it grew rapidly; but the skin never ulcerated. Presented hy Arthur E. Durham, Esq., 1879. 408. A tumour from under the lower jaw [Hunterian MS. Catalogue'], an example of erectile tumour. The cut sur- face of the tumour displays a close network of fine smooth shining bands and cords, almost exactly like that of the corpus cavernosum penis, only less regular in their arrange- ment. The exterior of the tumour is uneven, and has no definite character. Hunterian. 409. A flattened lobulated oval erectile tumour or nsvus, removed from under the skin of the left side of the breast of a child nine months old. A small portion of the skin involved in the tumour and discoloured during life is connected with it. It consists of lobules of fibrous tissue and fat, with numerous large vessels coursing through it. The mouths of the vessels, many of which are indicated by bristles, are much contracted by the hardening in spirit. Presented hy John Hilton, Esq., 1869. 410. A small subcutaneous tumour of spongy texture, probably an erectile nsevus. Hunterian. The principal other specimens of Erectile Tumom- may be found by reference to the Series of Diseases of the Bones.