The practice of surgery . of the bone, warrantamputation of the affected part. Enchondromata(Principles, 3d Am. Ed. p. 453) have here theirmost frequent site. If small and external, thetumor is dissected off, and the bone left which affect the whole bone require ampu-tation. Generally, the tumors are not single;yet, usually, we are able to save a part, andsometimes the greater part, of that most usefulorgan, the hand ; the avowed non-malignancy ofthis tumor admitting of incisions being made veryclose to the morbid formation. Sometimes, how-ever, the size and connections of the
The practice of surgery . of the bone, warrantamputation of the affected part. Enchondromata(Principles, 3d Am. Ed. p. 453) have here theirmost frequent site. If small and external, thetumor is dissected off, and the bone left which affect the whole bone require ampu-tation. Generally, the tumors are not single;yet, usually, we are able to save a part, andsometimes the greater part, of that most usefulorgan, the hand ; the avowed non-malignancy ofthis tumor admitting of incisions being made veryclose to the morbid formation. Sometimes, how-ever, the size and connections of the tumor aresuch as to demand amputation of the whole , I had occasion to remove one of greatsize, weighing fourteen pounds. From the apexof the tumor, repeated and serious hemorrhagehad taken place; and, it was satisfactory to find, on a careful exami-nation after injection, that the blood had escaped from ulcerated open-ings in large superficial veins, not from any degeneracy in the structureof the tumor The Large Jincnondroma re-ferred to. a. A section made toshow structure. 6. The ulcer-ated surface, whence the bleed-ing came. For the microscopiccharacters, see Principles, p. 305.
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