. General surgical pathology and therapeutics, in fifty-one lectures .. . rsof the mamma such an important factor, that it has given rise to aspecial form of cancer, atrophying, cicatrizing cancer. It cannot bedenied that in its pure form this variety of cancer has certain pecu-liarities which distinguish it from the ordinary, most frequent formsof cancer of the mamma; hence we prefer to describe it separatelyhereafter. The development of cancer of the mamma is accompanied by con-siderate distention of vessels and new formation. In the youngestparts of the new formation there are numerous fine
. General surgical pathology and therapeutics, in fifty-one lectures .. . rsof the mamma such an important factor, that it has given rise to aspecial form of cancer, atrophying, cicatrizing cancer. It cannot bedenied that in its pure form this variety of cancer has certain pecu-liarities which distinguish it from the ordinary, most frequent formsof cancer of the mamma; hence we prefer to describe it separatelyhereafter. The development of cancer of the mamma is accompanied by con-siderate distention of vessels and new formation. In the youngestparts of the new formation there are numerous fine vessels and net-works of vessels; in the older, especially in the softening parts, thevessels grow wider, then are thrombosed and destroyed, so that, aboutpoints of softening in tumors, similar net-works of dilated vesselsform as are developed on the formation of abscesses. The following are the clinical symptoms of the development andcourse of ordinary cancer of the mamma. The disease usually beginsbetween the thirtieth and sixtieth year, rarely earlier or later; the. Vascular net-work from a very young cancerous nodnJe of the mamma. Magnified 50 diameters women attacked are usually otherwise perfectly healthy; married andunmarried women, fruitful and barren wives, of all conditions, are at-tacked. Not unfrequently the parents or grand-parents have died ofcarcinoma. Most frequently in one breast, especially in the outer andlower part, there forms a tumor, at first small and painless, that some-times remains unnoticed for months; it is hard, firmly seated in the CARCINOMATA. ^01 Fig. 165.
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