. Injuries and diseases of the jaws : the Jacksonian prize essay of the Royal College of Surgeons of England, 1867. ulis growingfrom the anterior and inner surface of the ascending ramusof the lower jaw on the left side, extending from a pointnear the angle to close upon the condyle. Mr. Lawson re-moved the tumour with bone-forceps, cutting away appa-rently all its bony attachments. About six weeks after thefirst operation a small elastic mass appeared in the temporalfossa of the affected side, but tlie jaw was apparently Mr. Lawson excised^ but found that the growth hadevidently spr
. Injuries and diseases of the jaws : the Jacksonian prize essay of the Royal College of Surgeons of England, 1867. ulis growingfrom the anterior and inner surface of the ascending ramusof the lower jaw on the left side, extending from a pointnear the angle to close upon the condyle. Mr. Lawson re-moved the tumour with bone-forceps, cutting away appa-rently all its bony attachments. About six weeks after thefirst operation a small elastic mass appeared in the temporalfossa of the affected side, but tlie jaw was apparently Mr. Lawson excised^ but found that the growth hadevidently sprung from its original site, and extending up-wards, had passed beneatli the zygoma into the temporalfossa. The third operation was in June, 1859, when, inconsequence of the great size the tumour had attained, theinability of the girl to open her mouth, and the great diffi-culty she experienced in deglutition, Mr. Lawson removed aportion of the inferior maxilla, sawing through the bone infront of the angle, and then disarticulating. Upon theremoval of this portion of bone (fig. 165), it was found that Fig. the tumour had formed so many attachments to the perio-steum of the bones forming the base of the skull, that theoperator was compelled to leave some of the disease the end of November, 1859, the tumour had again SPINDLE-CELLED SARCOMA. 355 grown to a large size, and from the space it occupied in hermouth interfered much with her taking nourishment. It nowbegan to soften and to ulcerate on its surface, both externallyand within the mouth, and occasionally very alarming Fig. 166.
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