Interstate medical journal . walbe in which cancer developed upon an old tuberculous ulcerof the caecum. Lapeyre1- reports a case of tuberculosis and cancer Forman and Cameron: Cancer and Tuberculosis 1035 of the hand. Kellert13 cites as further examples of the same thing,the case of Weyenth in which the two diseases were coexistent inthe same oesophagus; that of Beale in which the same conditionswere found in the larynx. The presence of carcinoma and tuberculosis in the same organswould appear, therefore, to make the specimens about to be de-scribed worthy of record. Case I. Clinical Notes.—F
Interstate medical journal . walbe in which cancer developed upon an old tuberculous ulcerof the caecum. Lapeyre1- reports a case of tuberculosis and cancer Forman and Cameron: Cancer and Tuberculosis 1035 of the hand. Kellert13 cites as further examples of the same thing,the case of Weyenth in which the two diseases were coexistent inthe same oesophagus; that of Beale in which the same conditionswere found in the larynx. The presence of carcinoma and tuberculosis in the same organswould appear, therefore, to make the specimens about to be de-scribed worthy of record. Case I. Clinical Notes.—Female, age 56, white, native American, family historynegative for tuberculosis and cancer. For twenty years the patient has beenmore or less constipated. For the three months previous to her entrance tothe hospital, there has been no movement of the bowels without the aid ofa cathartic. During the last week, a movement has been almost impossible toobtain. For the last year the patient has been subject to attacks of pain in. Fig-. 1.—A giant cell growing between two of the infiltrating tubules of the car-cinoma, taken from an area where both processes intermingle (Case I). the right side. These attacks recurred about every two weeks. During thelast four months they became more frequent until at the time of her entranceto the hospital, there was an almost constant pain in the right lower patient had not, however, lost weight. She had always been a greatlover of outdoor life and has been able, until within a few days of her ad-mission, to work hard in the garden. Of late, however, she noticed while atwork, that she became tired somewhat more easily than usual. Nevertheless,the patient was not alarmed about her condition. She made a successfulattempt to conceal her illness from her friends up to the day of her entranceto the hospital. Pathological Report.— (Surgical Pathology 17,300.) The specimen is thatof a large intestine imbedded in a mass of tissue measuring
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