. The breast: its anomalies, its diseases, and their treatment . son enough, it may be added that we have found that the metastatic tumors insuch cases rarely show any gland-like structure. III. Gelatinous Carcinoma.—In the 575 cases in our pathological series, only 10 per cent, were of this variety. The gelatinous carcinoma is, therefore, a rare is quickly recognized the moment it is incised, because of its gelatinous consistencyand pale color. The extent of the degenerative destruction of the tissues, for it affectsboth epithelium and connective tissues, varies in different c
. The breast: its anomalies, its diseases, and their treatment . son enough, it may be added that we have found that the metastatic tumors insuch cases rarely show any gland-like structure. III. Gelatinous Carcinoma.—In the 575 cases in our pathological series, only 10 per cent, were of this variety. The gelatinous carcinoma is, therefore, a rare is quickly recognized the moment it is incised, because of its gelatinous consistencyand pale color. The extent of the degenerative destruction of the tissues, for it affectsboth epithelium and connective tissues, varies in different cases, so that some tumors aresofter than others. In advanced cases of the gelatinous degeneration the greater numberof the cells are destroyed. The metastatic growths show the same tendency to mucoidmetamorphosis as the primary tumor. When excessive destruction of tissue has takenplace, the mucous product may be collected in pockets in the tissue, where it forms moreor less clear, viscid, yellowish or colorless jelly-like collections that can be pressed out,. Fig. 177.—^Large cell nests with small amount of stroma,such, as appear in encephaloid or soft cancer. 486 THE BREAST and has a dense, though slimy rather than sticky quaUty. The microscope usuallyshows the cell nests degenerating from the periphery toward the center. The peri-ductaltissue is attacked before the inter-lobular tissue. The gelatinous carcinoma was formerlycalled colloid cancer, but it is now universally recognized that there is no true colloidcancer of the breast, and that the name should be abandoned. The cause of the mucoid change is not known. It might be ascribed to some localnutritional disturbance did it not occur equally in the secondaries. On this account ithas to be regarded as a specific quality of the tumor.
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