Cancer of the stomach : a clinical study . k underthe left ribs and could not be felt. It was also very movablewith inflation. No. 115 showed the effects of respiration, mechanical move-ment, inflation and position on the mobility of the tumour. Themass was visible in the right epigastrium on inspection. Itdescended several inches with inspiration, and on inflation of thestomach the tumour moved across the middle line from the left 5 66 CANCER OF THE STOMACH to the right epigastric region. Grasped in the hand, it could bepushed upwards to the left, so that its right border crossed themedian li
Cancer of the stomach : a clinical study . k underthe left ribs and could not be felt. It was also very movablewith inflation. No. 115 showed the effects of respiration, mechanical move-ment, inflation and position on the mobility of the tumour. Themass was visible in the right epigastrium on inspection. Itdescended several inches with inspiration, and on inflation of thestomach the tumour moved across the middle line from the left 5 66 CANCER OF THE STOMACH to the right epigastric region. Grasped in the hand, it could bepushed upwards to the left, so that its right border crossed themedian line. It could be pushed back about the same distanceto the right. When the patient was on his left side the tumourfell completely under the ribs and could not be felt ; when heturned on his right side the tumour fell over beyond themedian line. Of the circumstances influencing the mobility of tumours, thefollowing are the most important. Position of the Growth.—Tumours of the pylorus, or in thepyloric region, are the most freely
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