The science and art of surgery : being a treatise on surgical injuries, diseases, and operations . assume a malignant form, eitiier by propagatingitself in the internal organs like a sarcoma ; or, according to Rindfleisch,actual cancerous transformation may take jjlace, the stroma assumingthe form of a cancer-stroma, and the epithelium of the spaces assumingthe active growth of the cells of a true carcinoma. According to Curl-ing, cystic disease of the testicle is the result of morbid changes in theducts of the rete Fig. SJ3. — Cystic Sarcoinaof the Testicle. 926 DISEASES OF TriE TEST
The science and art of surgery : being a treatise on surgical injuries, diseases, and operations . assume a malignant form, eitiier by propagatingitself in the internal organs like a sarcoma ; or, according to Rindfleisch,actual cancerous transformation may take jjlace, the stroma assumingthe form of a cancer-stroma, and the epithelium of the spaces assumingthe active growth of the cells of a true carcinoma. According to Curl-ing, cystic disease of the testicle is the result of morbid changes in theducts of the rete Fig. SJ3. — Cystic Sarcoinaof the Testicle. 926 DISEASES OF TriE TESTIS AND CORD. Diagnosis—This affection has been carefully studied by Sir A. Cooper,who, with great justice, adverts to the difficulty of distinguishing itfrom other diseases of this organ, more especially from hydrocele. Tliepoints to be especially attended to in distinguishing the cystic sarcocele,aie its want of translucency, the more globular shape of the organ, itsweight, and the enlarged and varicose state of the veins of tlie there be any doubt, an exploratory puncture will resolve tliis, andshould alwajs be practised. Treatment.—Cystic sarcocele requires removal of the diseased organ. Cysts containing Colored Matters Occasionally cystic tumors of tlie testicle are met with, in which the substance of the organ is atro-phied or absorbed, and its place occupied by one or more large thin-walled sacculi containing fluids of different colors and consistence, darkor fatty. One of the most remarkable of t
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