Modern surgery, general and operative . -s cut well clear of it. If affecting a partwhere amputation is impossible, the rapidly growing sarcomata will almost in-evitably return, and the \-ery malignant variety, if uninterfered with, may ter-. Fig. 172.—Central sarcoma of humerus. minate life in six months; but even in such case operation postpones the e\ilday and renders it possible that death will occur from metastatic growth in anorgan, and that the patient will escape the horrors of ulceration and hemor-rhage from the original tumor. Slowly growing and hard tumors offer betterprospects of c
Modern surgery, general and operative . -s cut well clear of it. If affecting a partwhere amputation is impossible, the rapidly growing sarcomata will almost in-evitably return, and the \-ery malignant variety, if uninterfered with, may ter-. Fig. 172.—Central sarcoma of humerus. minate life in six months; but even in such case operation postpones the e\ilday and renders it possible that death will occur from metastatic growth in anorgan, and that the patient will escape the horrors of ulceration and hemor-rhage from the original tumor. Slowly growing and hard tumors offer betterprospects of cure. The mixed tumor (as a recurrent fibroid) may repeatedlyrecur, and yet the patient may be cured at last by a sLxth, an eighth, or atenth operation. In a case of spindle-cell sarcoma of the breast the youngerGross performed 22 operations in the course of four years, and eleven yearslater the woman was well. In a case of recurrent fibroid of the neck theyoimger Gross operated five times. Three years after Prof. Grosss death I 376 Tumors or Morbid Growths operated upon the same patient, and again two years later. Nine years afterthe last operation she was alive and well. In sarcoma of a long bone (thoughnot in giant-cell sarcoma) a
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