Manual of diseases and deformities of the spine / by R.L. Swan.

Date:
1894
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Credit: Manual of diseases and deformities of the spine / by R.L. Swan. 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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    [ 177 ] CHAPTER XVIII. NON-CONGENITAL TUMOURS IN THE VERTP:BRAL REGION. Dermoids—Illustrative Case—Teratomata—Hypertrophy of the Coccygeal Gland. The growths which may originate or appear after birth in the neighbourhood of, or in relation with the spinal column, are dermoid tumours, teratomata, fatty tumours, sebaceous growths, periosteal growths, including simple exostoses, and nodes of a syphilitic character, chronic inflammatory growths of a specific nature, malignant and recurrent tumours. Most of those require no detailed description, being common to other regions. The dermoids which are found at the mid line of the back invariably belong to the sequestration variety (Sutton, B. Med. Jour., Febry. 23rd, 1889), They are furnished with a lining of skin, with epidermis from which hairs grow, and furnished with sebaceous glands, which shed their secretion into the cyst cavity, which may be filled with sebum, cholesterine and shed hairs. This form of cyst occurs in situations where during embryonic life coalescence takes place between two surfaces having an epiblastic covering. M