. Tumours, innocent and malignant; their clinical characters and appropriate treatment. Fig. 16.—Sailor with a large osteoma growing from the orbit. (From a icater-colonr sketch in the Iltiseum of tlie Royal College of Surgeons.) due to necrosis of the tumour, and is parallel to the sheddingof the antlers in the stag. Osteomas of the orbit which haveresisted the efforts of surgeons to remove them have, yearsafter such operations, fallen of their own accord. The large and exceedingly hard ivory-like tumours whichgrow in the frontal sinuses are uncommon. An admirableexample figured by Baillie, a
. Tumours, innocent and malignant; their clinical characters and appropriate treatment. Fig. 16.—Sailor with a large osteoma growing from the orbit. (From a icater-colonr sketch in the Iltiseum of tlie Royal College of Surgeons.) due to necrosis of the tumour, and is parallel to the sheddingof the antlers in the stag. Osteomas of the orbit which haveresisted the efforts of surgeons to remove them have, yearsafter such operations, fallen of their own accord. The large and exceedingly hard ivory-like tumours whichgrow in the frontal sinuses are uncommon. An admirableexample figured by Baillie, and preserved in the museumof the Royal College of Surgeons, is unfortunately withouthistory (Figs. 17 and 18). Osteomas of this kind arise occasionally in the frontalsinuses of oxen, and form huge irregular lobulated masses, 36 C0NNBGTIVE-TI88UE TUMOURS sometimes weighing as much as sixteen pounds. Similartumours grow from the petrosal and encroach upon the. Fig. 17.—Osteoma in the left frontal sinus (anterior view). cranial cavity ; some of these have been reported in veterinaryliterature as ossified brains ! Osteomas at the margins of the external auditory meatushave been especially studied because they are apt to obstructthe meatus and cause deafness; when both meatuses are
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