Annual report on the Medical Research Institute / 1909-.

  • Nigeria. Medical Research Institute.
Date:
[1929]
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Credit: Annual report on the Medical Research Institute / 1909-. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    highly malignant tumour composed of closely packed, indifferent round and polyhedral cells. Adamantinoma appears to be met with fairly frequently in Nigeria. Mixed Tumours. Mixed tumour of parotid gland. 5. Mixed tumour of neck ... ... ... ... i. These tumours, common among the natives of the country, do not fall easily into either the benign or malignant group but should be regarded as potentially malignant. Of the six specimens received, one, from the parotid gland, showed definite carcinomatous change. ’ It is not certain that the mixed tumour of the neck mentioned above was not also of parotid origin. Malignant Tumours.—Total of forty-two examined. 1. Carcinomata Squamous c a r ci n o m a (epithelioma) of scrotum • • • 1 9 9 9 9 of heel ... • • • 1 99 99 of cervi uteri ... 1 9 9 9 9 of neck ... ... 1 A d e n o - c a r c i n o m a of parotid gland ... ... 1 99 of liver ... I 99 of female breast ... ... 2 M secondary in a gland • • • 1 99 of ? • • • 1 Myxo-adeno-carcinoma of anterior triangle of neck 1 99 99 of palate • • • 1 Solid or diffuse carcinoma of orbit ... • • • 1 9 9 9 9 of bladder • • • 1 99 99 of female breast ... • • • 2 9 9 9 9 of liver ... • • • 1 9 9 9 > secondary in abdominal gland ! 1 9 9 9 9 cervi uteri • • • 1 Pre-cancerous condition in chronic mastitis • ... 1 (one biliary in origin.) 2. Endothelioma fa. Angio-endothelioma 99 Cylindroma Endothelioma 3. Sarcomata. Round-cell sarcoma V 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 Spindle-cell sarcoma Lymphosarcoma Ciiosarcoma of skin .. ... ... 1 of erector spime muscle ... 1 of orbit ... ... ... 1 of gland... ... ... 1 of neck ... ... 1 of abdomen ... ... 1 of male breast ... ... 1 of gall-bladder ... ... 1 of scalp ... ... .. 1 of orbit ... ... 1 of arm ... ... ... 1 of tibia ... ... ... 1 of abdomen ... ... 1 of axilla ... ... ... 1 of neck ... ... ... 2 of orbit ... ... ... 1 4. Melanoma,ta (melanotic sarcoma.) Melanoma of groin ... ... ... 1 ,, of skin (region not specified) 1 Of the malignant tumours in the above analysis all, save two, occurred in native Africans. The squamous carcinoma of the neck and the pre-cancerous changes in a chronic mastitis were from Europeans. .Ewing (2) stresses the importance of the latter condition as regards the