. Elements of pathological anatomy. Anatomy. SECT. !•] FIBROUS TUMORS, 441 narrow foot-stalk, to an immense tumor, (Fig. 84,) which weighed more than one hundred pounds, and filled the whole of the abdom- ^. „, inal cavity, put- ^' ting the integu- ments and mus- cles greatly on the stretch. It was of a pale red- dish color, and of a fibro-vascular structure, look- ing a good deal like a mass of flesh. The sur- face of this mor- bid growth was covered with se- veral excrescen- ces, the largest of which weigh- ed nearly two pounds; and in its interior was contained a large sac, which discharged
. Elements of pathological anatomy. Anatomy. SECT. !•] FIBROUS TUMORS, 441 narrow foot-stalk, to an immense tumor, (Fig. 84,) which weighed more than one hundred pounds, and filled the whole of the abdom- ^. „, inal cavity, put- ^' ting the integu- ments and mus- cles greatly on the stretch. It was of a pale red- dish color, and of a fibro-vascular structure, look- ing a good deal like a mass of flesh. The sur- face of this mor- bid growth was covered with se- veral excrescen- ces, the largest of which weigh- ed nearly two pounds; and in its interior was contained a large sac, which discharged three quarts of puru- lent and highly offensive matter. The disease had existed for five years. The annexed engraving will convey a better idea of the nature and extent of these tumors than any description, however elaborate. In the other case, which occurred in a female, aged forty, the uterus had attained the size it usually has at the sixth month of pregnancy: its walls were one inch and a fourth in thickness, and the substance itself was in many parts ossified. Internally, at the fundus, was attached, by a short pedicle, a round, bony tumor, about the size of a small orange ; and a similar body occupied the uterine extremity of the Fallopian tube : the corresponding ovary was hypertrophied, but other- wise sound. There were other appearances still more extra- ordinary. Near the neck of the womb were six large oblong tubercles, adhering by small narrow foot-stalks, and branching out in different directions, so as to fill the abdomen as high up as the umbilicus : they were of a vascular texture, of a pale reddish color, very firm, dense, resisting, and bore evi- voL. II. 56. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Gross, Samuel D. (Samuel David), 1805-1884. Boston, James Dow
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