Notes on pathology : a handbook for the post-mortem room / by R.E. Carrington ; edited, revised and amplified by H. Evelyn Crook and Guy Mackeson.

Date:
1892
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Credit: Notes on pathology : a handbook for the post-mortem room / by R.E. Carrington ; edited, revised and amplified by H. Evelyn Crook and Guy Mackeson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    Varieties. 1. Soft carcinoma (encephaloid), most common. 2. Various kinds of sarcomata. 3. Scirrhiis, epithelioma, and colloid ; these are all very rare. It may occur in persons of all ages, but the middle periods of life are the most liable, almost equally in the two sexes. When primary^ it usually constitutes a solitary mass in the substance of the lung. When secondary to surrounding parts, it runs along the bronchial tubes, infiltrating the connective tissue surrounding them, and finally involving the walls of the tubes and the surrounding lung tissue. When secondary to disease in distant organs, mul- tiple nodules are found of various sizes in the substance of the lung and beneath the pleura. Malignant growths of the lung, like those of other organs, tend rapidly to undergo degenerative changes, and thus to break down and form vomicae.—Eds.]
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