. Tumours, innocent and malignant; their clinical characters and appropriate treatment. and the cause is manifest at the post-mortemexamination (Peacocks case). In others the cyst, or colony,embarrasses the action of the heart and produces serioussymptoms of valvular lesion (Evans, Moxon). More oftenthe cyst bursts into one of the cavities of the heart, thevesicles and membrane being deported as emboli. When thecavities on the left side of the heart are invaded the vesicles. Fig. 353.—Left ventricle of heart opened vertically to expose an echinococcuscolony growing in the loose tissue of the a
. Tumours, innocent and malignant; their clinical characters and appropriate treatment. and the cause is manifest at the post-mortemexamination (Peacocks case). In others the cyst, or colony,embarrasses the action of the heart and produces serioussymptoms of valvular lesion (Evans, Moxon). More oftenthe cyst bursts into one of the cavities of the heart, thevesicles and membrane being deported as emboli. When thecavities on the left side of the heart are invaded the vesicles. Fig. 353.—Left ventricle of heart opened vertically to expose an echinococcuscolony growing in the loose tissue of the auriculo-ventricular septum on theposterior aspect of the heart. {3£useum of the Middlesex Hospital.) are distributed by the systemic vessels. Oesterlin recorded acase in w^hich a girl of 23 years developed gangrene of theright leg ; this was amputated, and she died of pyaemia. Anechinococcus colony the size of a pigeons Qgg, situated inthe wall of the left auricle, had burst into the cavity of theauricle, a piece of the cyst-wall was discovered in a thrombusin the right common iliac artery, and an entire vesicle hadlodged in the deep femoral artery. has recorded a case which illustrates the tragicway in which an echinococcus colony of the heart may PULMONARY HYDATIDS 663 destroy life. A servant-girl was gathering chips at a wood-heap ; she fell down as if in a fit, and died within tenminutes. On post-mortem examination an echinococcuscolony as big as an o
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