Tumors of the cerebellum / by Charles K. Mills [and others].

Date:
1905
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Credit: Tumors of the cerebellum / by Charles K. Mills [and others]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    when growing within the brain a distinct mar- gin sometimes may be found, due to the softened area stirrounding it. It is usually harder in con- sistency than a glioma, and is slow in its growth. The tumor may soften or caseate. Myxoma- tous, hemorrhagic, and cystic changes are not uncommon. Cystic changes are especially com- mon in the cerebellum, not only in sarcomata, but also in gliomata. In one of Dr. Spiller’s cases small sarcomatous masses were found in the walls of a cyst. If the fibrous tissue is very marked we have a fibrosarcoma. Sarcoma may manifest itself as a diffuse mul- tiple sarcomatosis. In an excellent article Spil- ler recorded two such cases and called attention to the rarity of this disease. He quotes Schle- singer, who subdivided the tumors under the head of multiple sarcomatosis into (a) Diseases of the nervous substance and meninges, (b) Multiple sarcomatosis of the membranes without sarcoma of the brain or cord, when it is (1) in the form of multiple small tumors, or (2) a diffuse sarcomatous infiltration of the mem- branes. Of twenty cases recorded by Schlesinger, four- teen implicated the brain and cord or their mem- branes. “In nine of these fourteen cases cere-