On a giant-celled rhabdomyo sarcoma from the trout / by J.G. Adami.

  • John George Adami
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[1908]
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Credit: On a giant-celled rhabdomyo sarcoma from the trout / by J.G. Adami. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    whether this form occurs also in man, and whether in man we have to add to the list of giant-celled tumours, a type gaining its origin from voluntary muscle. Tumours in fish are not unknown. Some twelve years ago, I received from Dr. Decks a relatively large myxofibroma, which he had removed post mortem from a cod, caught in the Gulf. If I mistake not, I brought the case before the Society. Eecently, in connexion with the study of the distribution of malignant growths throughout the animal kingdom, there has been an increased interest in the subject, and several cases have been reported of tumours of different orders found in fish. The majority of these cases, curiously enough, are of adenomatous and even of definitely carcinomatous type (Scott, Gilruth, Plehn, Pick, and Bashford’s first case). Judging from Dr. Marianne Plehn and Pick, and Poll’s cases, their most common situation in the salmonidse is below the lower jaw in the fioor of the mouth. This position and their histological structure suggests strongly an origin from thyroid tissue. Bashford records a malignant adenoma of the peritoneal cavity of the Gurnard. The only sarcomatous tumour to which I have found reference is Bashford’s second case, that of a spindle-celled sarcoma of the codfish, the figure given by him, with its loose arrangement of cells, shows some similarity to our own specimen of myxofibroma in the same fish. So far, I have been unable to come across the description of any case of a fish tumour at all resembling that here described. BIBLIOGRAPHY. Bashford—Report of the Imperial Cancer Research Fund, No, 1, London, 1904. Bashford and Murray—Proc. Royal Society London, 73, p. 66, 1904. Gilruth—Annual Report Div. of Veterinary Science, New Zealand Depart- ment of Agriculture, No. 1, 1902. Pick and Poll—Berliner Klin. Wochenschr. 30, 1903, Pp. 518, 546 and 572. Plehn (Frl.)—Allgem. Fischerei Zeitung, No. 7, 1903. Scott—Transactions New Zealand Institute, 1891.
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