The practice of surgery . Fig. 372.—Epulis. recurs locally and can be removed surely by the merest local treatment—by excision, the cautery, or the curet even. Sarcoma of the body of the jaw is a far more serious matter thanepulis. Epulis is a disease of young adult life, sarcoma of the body ofthe jaw is a disease of middle age. This latter form of tumor is a round-cell sarcoma with a scanty stroma. It appears in both the upper andthe lower jaws and extends rapidly until it involves all the bones of theface, as well as the neighboring soft parts. It recurs commonly afterbeing removed, and the
The practice of surgery . Fig. 372.—Epulis. recurs locally and can be removed surely by the merest local treatment—by excision, the cautery, or the curet even. Sarcoma of the body of the jaw is a far more serious matter thanepulis. Epulis is a disease of young adult life, sarcoma of the body ofthe jaw is a disease of middle age. This latter form of tumor is a round-cell sarcoma with a scanty stroma. It appears in both the upper andthe lower jaws and extends rapidly until it involves all the bones of theface, as well as the neighboring soft parts. It recurs commonly afterbeing removed, and the only treatment which holds out any promiseof cure is extensive and deforming resection of all the parts upper jaw sometimes is the seat of a periosteal sarcoma arising 564 THE FACE AXD NEfK from the gums, though the conmion situation of periosteal sarcoma isin the antrum, where it causes great enlargement of the bone and en-croaches ui>on the nasal passages, the orbit, and the sphenomaxillary,zygomatic
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