Surgery : its theory and practice / by William Johnson Walsham.

  • William Walsham
Date:
1890
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    been due to the presence of sarcoma elomonts which wre overlooked. Striicfnre.—Cai'tilaginoiis tumoiirs are generally en- capsTiled, and, when large, are often lohnlati.-d. They may consist of a single mass of cartilage, without visible partitions, or of numerous small clustered masses bound together by connective tissue and blood-vessels. On section they are translucent, blui.sh-grey, pinkish--white, homogeneous or coarsely granular, and frequently mapped out into irregular lobules. They usually consist of hyaline- or fibro-cartilage. The microscopical characters of typical examples of the hyaline and fibrous varieties are seen in Fig. 9. Scrtmdary (7iay)(/es. —-Calcification, ossification, mucoid softening with formation of cj'sts, and ulceration. U.iuaJ .fm/.f.—(1) The bones, especially the phalanges of the fingers and sometimes of the toes, the lower end of the femur, and the head of the tibia and humerus, and (2) the parotid gland. Enchondromata may also occur in the suljcutaucous tis.siie and the testicl(\ The .Vf/n.H and diaciuoKi:^ will bo given under Tumours of ]5one and I'arolid' gland. Hero only ne(-d it bo said, that their eliiel' ehariieterislies are their extreme hard- ness, smoodi or lobulated surface, and slow growth. Th(n' are usually single, except in the kinds, where p'nerally .severiit fiiigei's are a1b>cled. -At limes 1liey are (>f a softer coiisisleney ill iilaces owing 1 miic<iid softening, and at times ()l''ra])i(l growlli, but in Ibe latter ease it Fir,, fl.—Cavtilaginmis Tmnour. Upper lialf Ii.valine ; lower half iiln-ous.
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