. Tumours, innocent and malignant; their clinical characters and appropriate treatment. ransformedinto a plexiform neuioraa. (After Camphell cle More/an.) In one instance the nerves involved included the facialhypoglossal, motor portion of the fifth and its lingual enlargement of the lingual and hypoglossal nervesproduced macroglossia in a child aged 4 years, for whichAbbott excised the protruding part of the tongue. Shattockinvestigated the diseased organ, and the outcome was anadmirable paper of great value and interest. As examples of the disease limited to part of a nerve,refere
. Tumours, innocent and malignant; their clinical characters and appropriate treatment. ransformedinto a plexiform neuioraa. (After Camphell cle More/an.) In one instance the nerves involved included the facialhypoglossal, motor portion of the fifth and its lingual enlargement of the lingual and hypoglossal nervesproduced macroglossia in a child aged 4 years, for whichAbbott excised the protruding part of the tongue. Shattockinvestigated the diseased organ, and the outcome was anadmirable paper of great value and interest. As examples of the disease limited to part of a nerve,reference may be made to some cases in which the ophthal-mic division of the trigeminus has been affected, leadino- toenlargement of the upper eyelid and proptosis, which neces-sitated excision of the eyeball, in one patient with fatalconsequences (Friedenwald, Rockliffe and Parsons, TreacherCollins and Batten). 144 CONNECTIVE-TISSUE TUMOURS I have seen a plexiform neuroma strictly limited to thegreat occipital nerve. The scalp covering the affected nervewas transformed into a brown Humerus. Musculo-spiral ntrve. Brachio-radialis muscle(supinator longus). Neuroma. Neuroma on the cuta-neous branches of themusculo-spiral nerve. Fig. 83.—The arm represented in the preceding figure dissected : the musculo-spiralnerve and its branches are transformed into a plexiform neuroma. In the limbs any nerve may be attacked, and the diseaseis usually limited to one nerve, and follows it out to itsfinal ramification. One of the most remarkable specimens known is pre- PLEXIFOBM NEUROMA 145 served in the museum of the Middlesex Hospital; in thisthe musculo-spiral nerve is affected. The patient, a girlof 15 years, suffered amputation of the arm by Campbellde Morgan. (Figs. 82 and 83.) The musculo-spiral nerve is as thick as the thumb; itlooked gelatinous, like an umbilical cord. The cutaneousbranches of the nerve are very thick and irregularlynodulated. The microscopic changes in the musculo-s
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