The pathology and surgical treatment of tumors . oliferum phyllodcs(Fig. 428), and Astley Cooper called it hydatid tumor. The peri-canalicular proliferation projects into the dilated ducts and constitutes,with the intracanaUcular excrescences, the proliferating masses. Gland-tissue is sometimes found in the tumor-substance which has grownaround it, but it is soon removed by degeneration and by pressure-atrophy. The stroma of the tumor is very apt to undergo myxomatousdegeneration. 592 PATHOLOGY AND TREATMENT OF TUMORS. Round-celled sarcoma grows very rapidly ; the tumor is soft (medul-lary sar
The pathology and surgical treatment of tumors . oliferum phyllodcs(Fig. 428), and Astley Cooper called it hydatid tumor. The peri-canalicular proliferation projects into the dilated ducts and constitutes,with the intracanaUcular excrescences, the proliferating masses. Gland-tissue is sometimes found in the tumor-substance which has grownaround it, but it is soon removed by degeneration and by pressure-atrophy. The stroma of the tumor is very apt to undergo myxomatousdegeneration. 592 PATHOLOGY AND TREATMENT OF TUMORS. Round-celled sarcoma grows very rapidly ; the tumor is soft (medul-lary sarcoma), and life is often destroyed in three or four months afterthe discovery of the tumor. The rapidity with which such tumorsgrow has often led surgeons to mistake them for abscesses, andabscesses have not infrequently been mistaken for sarcomata. A fewyears ago a woman forty years of age was sent to the writer byan able practitioner with the diagnosis of sarcoma. The enlargementof the breast had begun two months before, had increased Fig. 427.—Cysto-sarcoma prolifenim (after Konig): a, cysts; h, proliferating masses of sarcoma-tissue;c, cellular lining of cysts ; d, stroma. and was not attended by any considerable pain. The breast was thesize of a childs head, smooth, and fluctuated on deep palpation. Theskin over the swelling was movable and only slightly the swelling came on some time after the patient ceased to nurseher child, the writer was led to resort to an exploratory puncture, and,somewhat to his astonishment, pus was withdrawn, The case revealeditself as a subacute submammary abscess. The cases are perhaps morefrequent in which a rapid-growing sarcoma is mistaken for an bistoury has often been plunged into such tumors with the inten- SARCOMA. 593 tion of opening an abscess, when, to the great chagrin of the operator,only blood escaped. A puncture made under such circumstances oftendoes an incalculable amount of mischief. It beco
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