. A practical treatise on tumors of the mammary gland: . ent they are elastic, or soft and fluctu-ating over the more prominent bosses, but firm else-where. On section they may be dry, white, nacra-ceous, or opaque-white, dense, and compact, and cryunder the knife, and the interlacing bundles offibrous tissue may be arranged concentrically aroundcentres which project above the level of the cut sur-faces. Minute examination of growths which present Op. «7., pp. 1181 and 1199. * Op. cit., p. 325. ^ Virchow^s Archiv, Bd. Ivii, p. 163. * Arch. Gen,, scr. 6, vol. xxv, p. Op. cit., p. 159. * Di
. A practical treatise on tumors of the mammary gland: . ent they are elastic, or soft and fluctu-ating over the more prominent bosses, but firm else-where. On section they may be dry, white, nacra-ceous, or opaque-white, dense, and compact, and cryunder the knife, and the interlacing bundles offibrous tissue may be arranged concentrically aroundcentres which project above the level of the cut sur-faces. Minute examination of growths which present Op. «7., pp. 1181 and 1199. * Op. cit., p. 325. ^ Virchow^s Archiv, Bd. Ivii, p. 163. * Arch. Gen,, scr. 6, vol. xxv, p. Op. cit., p. 159. * Did. de Mel. et de Chir. Prat., t. xxi, p. 555. Diet. Enc;ic. des Sciences Med., scr. ii, t. iv, p. 394,8 Op. cit., p. 252. Op. cit., p. 544. For the other references to the works contained in thisparagraph, consult page 38. AI^ATOMT. 51 these peculiarities, shows, as in fig. G, that they arecomposed of dense bundles of mature fibrous tissue,which is almost or entirely devoid of corpuscles, andthat the small projections correspond to acini. This Fio. Fibroma.—New growth of mature connective tissue, with intercalated dilatedacini, a a a, the epithelial cells of which have undergone initative hyper-plasia. The stained nuclei of the cells alcne are shown. type coiTesponds, therefore, to tlie neoplasms former-ly called fibroid or desmoid. In otlier specimens,bands of young, wavy connective tissue interlace inevery direction. Such tumors are more or less juicyor moist, and of a glistening whitish, grayish-white,or rosaceous tint, and represent the majority of fibro-mata. In rapidly growing examples the minute struc- From a section of a tumor, as large as a walnut, and of fourteen monthsduration enucleated from the upper and outer portion of the right mamma of amarried and prolific lady forty-two years of age. 52 FIBROMA. ture is tliat of recent connective tissue abounding incellular elements. The smallest vegetating tumors have a lobed ap-pearance, while the macroscopic feature
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