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
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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 9. Lymph-gland Tumours. Lymphoma; Lymphadetioma; Lymphosarcoma : 411 to 414. 411. An oval tumour three inches in its longest diameter. Its capsule has been removed ; its outer surface is irregular ; its cut surface, pink when fresh, now pale yellow, is opaque and homogeneous. On microscopic examination it appeared to be entirely made up of masses of lymph-cells in a reti- form stroma. From a woman aged 34, who had noticed a tumour in her left groin for four years. It lay below Poupart's ligament, extending as far as the saphenous opening; its capsule was readily stripped off and was extremely vascular and covered with large veins appa- rently communicating with the internal saphenous. See MS. Notes, vol. iii. p. 130. Presented by Dr. G. G. Bantoch, 1879. 412. A large rounded mass from the axilla. It has a distinct capsule ] and the section presents a finely lobulated appear- ance. Under the microscope it showed small round cells, resembling lymph-cells, accumulated in rounded masses which were separated by rather thick septa of fibrous tissue; to the presence of these masses the lobulation was due. Prom a woman aged 33. It had been slowly growing for seven years. See MS. Notes, vol. ii. p. 188. Presented by Sir William Fergusson. 413. An abdominal aorta with the external iliac arteries, show- ing considerable enlargement of the lumbar glands, which partly surround them. On their cut surfaces the substance of the diseased glands presents no evident alteration from the normal condition. Presented by Francis Kiernan, Esq., 1871.