Angioma of the cerebral membranes (card specimen) ; A submaxillary gland removed with an unusually large salivary calculus (card specimen) ; A case of congenital umbilical hernia ; Cases of sarcoma of the urinary bladder ; Simple comminuted fracture of the head of the tibia ; A parosteal tibia, or congenital fatty tumour, connected with the periosteum of the femur / by D'Arcy Power.

Power, D'Arcy, 1855-1941.

Date:: [1888]

Credit: Angioma of the cerebral membranes (card specimen) ; A submaxillary gland removed with an unusually large salivary calculus (card specimen) ; A case of congenital umbilical hernia ; Cases of sarcoma of the urinary bladder ; Simple comminuted fracture of the head of the tibia ; A parosteal tibia, or congenital fatty tumour, connected with the periosteum of the femur / by D'Arcy Power. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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Reprinted from the ‘ Transactions of the Pathological Society of London,’ 1888. Angioma of the cerebral membranes. (Card specimen.) By D’Arcy Power, M.B. [With Plate I, fig. 1.] IIhe angioma forms an oval swelling situated upon a vein on the cerebral surface of the pia mater covering the angular gyrus. The tumour itself, after preservation in spirit, measures an inch in length and three quarters of an inch in diameter. It consists of a close plexus of vessels, which have an average diameter of an eighth of an inch, and are therefore of sufficient size to receive a coarse injection of gelatine and carmine. The vessels appear to be derived from the vein upon which they lie, reinforced by branches from the neighbouring veins. From a young man aged 20, who suddenly became comatose after returning from work in an apparently healthy condition. Whilst he was comatose he had left hemiplegia with divergent strabismus. Two days after the seizure the patient had several attacks of opisthotonos with spasm of the left limbs. He died ten days after the onset of the symptoms. At the post-mortem examination a large irregular haemorrhage was found in the right cerebral hemisphere. The blood appeared to come from the vessels immediately surrounding a tumour which was situated upon the surface of the right angular gyrus, though its exact source was not determined. The haemorrhage extended from the surface of the brain to the posterior part of the internal capsule, and had neither burst into the lateral ventricle nor externally. The spinal cord and other organs of the body were quite healthy. The specimen is preserved in the museum of St. Bartholomew’s Hospital, Series xxx, No. 2466(a). February 7th, 1888.

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