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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    414. A half-section of the pelvic viscera of a child, together with the enlarged left kidney and its dilated ureter. The pelvic cavity is filled with a soft encapsuled tumour, the cut sur- face of which is yellowish and shows small cystic cavities. The pelvic viscera are displaced upwards and forwards. After microscopical examination the tumour was considered to be lymphadenoma. From a female infant aged 16 months. The disease was first detected six weeks before death, when the patient was constipated, with considerable protrusion of the anus. Obstruction of the bowels and retention of urine frequently recurred and passed-ofi; the temperature rose to 104°; and the patient died with vomiting, dyspncea, and great distention of the abdomen. One of the patient's sisters, aged 9 years, had a [congenital] cystic tumour situated on the posterior part of the sacrum and coccyx. (See Trans. Path. Soc. vol. xxvi. p. 194.) The other half of the tumour and adjacent parts is in the Museum of St. Thomas's Hospital. Presented hy Francis Mason, Esq., 1875. Tlie principal other specimens of Lymph-gland Tumours may be found in the Series of Diseases of the Lymphatic Glands. Subseries 10. SARCOMA—Embeto-tissue Tumours. Subdivision A. Myxomatous Sarcoma. Mucoid Tumour; Myxoma; Colloid Tumour; Gelatinous Sarcoma, 8fc.: 415 to 419. 415. A large myxomatous tumour from the substance of a rectus abdominis muscle. It is lobulated externally like a fatty tumour, and is entirely confined to tlie connective tissue, not infiltrating the muscular structures, though some fibres of the rectus have been removed with it. On section its surface appears to be made up of numerous large lobules, separated from each other by fibrous bands. Some of these lobules appear like pure fatty tissue; others are milky-white,