. Tumours, innocent and malignant; their clinical characters and appropriate treatment. cancerous tissue,resembling the clot in a thrombosed vein, but its walls areinfiltrated with the cancerous tissue in the way that sarco-matous tumours implicate the walls of large veins. Obstruction of the thoracic duct by extension of cancerhas been noticed in association with primary cancer of thestomach, uterus, rectum ; and careful descriptions of the con-ditions have been published by Unger, Weigert, Troisier, andHillier, among others. Perhaps the most remarkable featureof the complication is the absen
. Tumours, innocent and malignant; their clinical characters and appropriate treatment. cancerous tissue,resembling the clot in a thrombosed vein, but its walls areinfiltrated with the cancerous tissue in the way that sarco-matous tumours implicate the walls of large veins. Obstruction of the thoracic duct by extension of cancerhas been noticed in association with primary cancer of thestomach, uterus, rectum ; and careful descriptions of the con-ditions have been published by Unger, Weigert, Troisier, andHillier, among others. Perhaps the most remarkable featureof the complication is the absence of any indication thatthis duct was obstructed, and in no case was chylous ascitesobserved. The implication of the thoracic duct in cancerof the stomach explains the enlargement of the lymph-glandsat the root of the neck ; this is a sign of diagnostic value. The extent to which lymphatic infection has occurred isa matter which cannot be accurately defined in a givencase of carcinoma, and this adds an additional factor ofuncertainty in estimating the results and value of surgical. ^ lll,ljiill ^
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