The genesis of carcinoma of the Fallopian tube in hyperplastic salpingitis, with report of a case and a table of twenty-one reported cases / by E. R. Le Count.

Le Count, H. R.

Date:: 1901

Credit: The genesis of carcinoma of the Fallopian tube in hyperplastic salpingitis, with report of a case and a table of twenty-one reported cases / by E. R. Le Count. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$% [From The Johns Hopkins Hospital Bulletin, Vol. -XII, No. 120, March, 1001.] .* * n /to/ vS\ * '. THE GENESIS OF CARCINOMA OF THE FALLOPIAN TUBE IN HYPERPLASTIC SALPINGITIS, WITH REPORT OF A CASE AND A TABLE OF TWENTY- ONE REPORTED CASES. By E. R. Le Count, M. D., Assistant Professor of Pathology, Push Medical College. (From the Pathological Laboratory of Push Medical College.) Among theoretical conceptions of pathological processes [55] to which disease is attributable are certain ideas that have at their inception the distinctness of a silhouette. With the advancement of knowledge, the margins of certain no- tions lose their definiteness and we find various processes uniting insensibly at their boundaries. The idea that necrosis means death of tissue remains firmly planted, but the exact limitation of its import is considerably blurred when the process of gradual death is screened behind the caption of atrophy. Any attempt deserves approval that has for its object the segregation and classification of morbid processes that lie in the boundary zone. It seems, however, that as time advances the narrow distance now separating the process of tissue hyperplasia from that concerned in the development of benign tumors will not be increased. Lu- barsch,* 1 after commenting on the close connection between tumors and infectious processes, notes this difficulty in the following words: “ Suchte man daher nach anderen un- terschiedenen Kriterien, so machte sich eine weitere L561 Schwierigkeit, die Abgrenzung gegentiber die Hyperplasie bemerkbar.” Still, it is evident that if a process of ques- tionable character midway between tumor and hyperplasia Ergebnisse cl. allg. Path. u. path. Anat., 1895, ii, p. 290, Wiesbaden. (1)$