. Tumours, innocent and malignant; their clinical characters and appropriate treatment. Fig. i2.^Pedunculated bodies removed from the knee ; the joint containedthiity-six such bodies. It must be remembered that prepatellar bursse insyphilitics sometimes rapidly solidify. The literature of sarcomas arising in bursal sacs hasbeen collected by Adrian. It is characterized by greatpoverty. Sarcomas of the alimentary canal. — Although carci-noma is the prevailing type of malignant disease whichattacks the alimentary canal from the oesophagus to theanus, cases of sarcoma have been observed and report
. Tumours, innocent and malignant; their clinical characters and appropriate treatment. Fig. i2.^Pedunculated bodies removed from the knee ; the joint containedthiity-six such bodies. It must be remembered that prepatellar bursse insyphilitics sometimes rapidly solidify. The literature of sarcomas arising in bursal sacs hasbeen collected by Adrian. It is characterized by greatpoverty. Sarcomas of the alimentary canal. — Although carci-noma is the prevailing type of malignant disease whichattacks the alimentary canal from the oesophagus to theanus, cases of sarcoma have been observed and reported insufficient numbers to enable their leading clinical features SARCOMAS 73 to be summarized. The disease arises in the submucoustissue, and may assume the form of a j^olypus, or infil-trate the wall of the canal, or project on the surface of theintestine in the form of plaques. All species of sarcomashave been observed. It is also noteworthy that sarcomasare more prone to attack those regions of the stomach and. Pedicle. Abscess cavity. Tumour. Fig. 43.—Portion of jejunum in section ; a pedunculated tumour had invaginated thebowel and produced intestinal obstruction. (From a man 35 years of age.) intestines which are in a measure respected by , in the stomach, sarcomas prefer the body of theorgan, and they occur with greater frequency in the smallthan in the large intestine. In the small intestine theliability to the disease increases from duodenum to have been reported in the vermiform deposits appear to be most common in the liver. 74 CONNECTIVE- TI8SUE TUMOURS One of the most important clinical features Avhichdistinguish sarcoma of the intestine, large or small, fromcarcinoma is its occurrence in the early years of life;many examples have been observed in children. Thedisease runs a more rapid course, causes more pain, andforms a much larger tumour than is the rule with car-cinoma. As a sarcoma often tends to become poly
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