. Tumours, innocent and malignant; their clinical characters and appropriate treatment. its way between the arches of two vertebrse instead of2 p 642 PSEUDO-CYSTS between the laminte of a single vertebra. It is a fact thatthe sac of a meningocele sometimes emerges through a verynarrow orifice, and in a few instancesthis causes the cyst to become moreor less pedunculated, and may lead toocclusion of the aperture by Avhichthe dural space and the cyst com-municate and thus isolate the cyst. Virchow investigated a remarkablespecimen ilhistrating this patient was a negro child bornwith
. Tumours, innocent and malignant; their clinical characters and appropriate treatment. its way between the arches of two vertebrse instead of2 p 642 PSEUDO-CYSTS between the laminte of a single vertebra. It is a fact thatthe sac of a meningocele sometimes emerges through a verynarrow orifice, and in a few instancesthis causes the cyst to become moreor less pedunculated, and may lead toocclusion of the aperture by Avhichthe dural space and the cyst com-municate and thus isolate the cyst. Virchow investigated a remarkablespecimen ilhistrating this patient was a negro child bornwith a large tumour pendulous fromits buttock (Fig. 342). The tumourwas removed in Central Africa andsent to Virchow, under the impressionthat it was a fatty tumour. Dis-section revealed a central space inthe tumour lined with dura mater,which was covered with fat intermixed with structure and arrangement of the parts were such as tolead Virchow to the opinion that the tumour was the sac of ameningocele (Fig. 343). A tumour in many respects similar to this, save that it. I Fig. 340.—Diagram showinga meningo-myelocele in trans-verse section. The cord isflattened on the posterior wallof the cyst, and the nervestraverse its cavity.
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