Annals of surgery . m the whooping-cough it was no-ticed that his abdomen was somewhat enlarged, and an examina-tion revealed a tumor. Nothing was done for it, and the abdomengradually continued to enlarge until he appeared at my surgicalclinic, at the Chicago Policlinic, in April, 1896. The subjectivehistory of the case was entirely negative. To all questions theboy, as well as his mother, gave negative answers. There had never been any pain; no disturbance of thestomach; no interference with the action of the intestines; notrouble of any kind with the urinary organs. Objectively, theboy was
Annals of surgery . m the whooping-cough it was no-ticed that his abdomen was somewhat enlarged, and an examina-tion revealed a tumor. Nothing was done for it, and the abdomengradually continued to enlarge until he appeared at my surgicalclinic, at the Chicago Policlinic, in April, 1896. The subjectivehistory of the case was entirely negative. To all questions theboy, as well as his mother, gave negative answers. There had never been any pain; no disturbance of thestomach; no interference with the action of the intestines; notrouble of any kind with the urinary organs. Objectively, theboy was pale and anaemic; while the abdomen was large andprominent, the balance of the body—arms, legs, etc.—was thinand showed emaciation; he was weak and displayed little lifeor activity. The circumference of the body at the level of thexiphoid appendix measured sixty-two and a half centimetres;midway between the xiphoid and the umbilicus, sixty-two centi- Read before the Chicago Pathological Society, January, Fig. I.—Lyniphosarcomatous tumor of the mesentery, from a photograph of thespecimen after removal. Harris. SOLID MESENTERIC TUMORS. 67 metres; at the umbilicus, fifty-nine centimetres; at the crests ofthe ilia, fifty-seven centimetres. The distance from the xiphoidappendix to the umbilicus was sixteen centimetres, and from theumbilicus to the symphysis pubis twelve centimetres. A large tumor, easily palpable, was found to fill the greaterportion of the abdominal cavity. Its surface was smooth, thoughsomewhat irregular; the entire mass was as movable as theclosely-fitting abdominal walls would permit, and to the senseof touch it gave one the impression of being a solid tumor. The ascending and descending colon occupied each its re-spective loin, thus excluding either kidney as a probable originof the growth. The transverse colon encircled the tumor supe-riorly and demarcated it from the liver and spleen. In the urine no abnormal constituents, either chemical ormic
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