Cancer and its complications / by Charles Egerton Jennings.

  • Jennings, Charles Egerton
Date:
1893
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Credit: Cancer and its complications / by Charles Egerton Jennings. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    malignant. The most common situations for this variety- are the testis, tonsil, antrum of Highmore and lymphatic glands (lympho-sarcoma). Spindle-celled. Latin equivalent Cellas habens fusiformes. French „ ... ••• A cellules fusiformes. German „ Spindelzelliges. Italian „ A fusa. The cells of this variety being spindle-shaped, some writers have concluded that they are really embryonic muscle- and nerve-fibre cells in an arrested state of development. As there are two kinds of round-celled sarcoma, viz. large and small, so also are there large and small spindle- celled sarcomata. This variety is most common in the bones, testis, muscles, skin, and eye. Giant-celled. Latin equivalent Myeloides. French „ A Myeloplaques. German „ Myeloidgeschwulst. Italian „ ... ... Mieloide. The giant-celled or myeloid sarcomata are distinguished histologically by the presence of giant-cells, which are masses of protoplasm of considerable size, containing a very variable number of nuclei (from two or three to forty or more). The term should only be applied to those tumours which contain a very large preponderance of giant-cells, among the other constituents—generally round or spindle cells, and not to sarcomata in which only a few exist. Giant-celled sarcomata, therefore, occur nearly exclu- sively in the bones—and in the central portions of the
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