. Tumours, innocent and malignant; their clinical characters and appropriate treatment. /3i-T7£/-y«|\TH-[c Fig. 48. —Tibia and fibula. The tibia is greatly expanded throughout its length by acentral sarcoma. From a man 24 years of age. {Museum, Royal College of Surgeons.) 8JBC0MAS OF BONES 83 February he was suffocated by large secondary nodules ofsarcoma compressing the bronchi. The tibia.—-Sarcomas are fairly common in this bone;they prefer the upper to the lower end, and they do not. Accessary nodule ofsarcoma. Interosseous membrane. — Sarcoma. Flexor longus liallucis. Peroneus longus. — De
. Tumours, innocent and malignant; their clinical characters and appropriate treatment. /3i-T7£/-y«|\TH-[c Fig. 48. —Tibia and fibula. The tibia is greatly expanded throughout its length by acentral sarcoma. From a man 24 years of age. {Museum, Royal College of Surgeons.) 8JBC0MAS OF BONES 83 February he was suffocated by large secondary nodules ofsarcoma compressing the bronchi. The tibia.—-Sarcomas are fairly common in this bone;they prefer the upper to the lower end, and they do not. Accessary nodule ofsarcoma. Interosseous membrane. — Sarcoma. Flexor longus liallucis. Peroneus longus. — Detached portion of theflexor longus liallucis Fig. 49.—Spindle-celled sarcoma of the fibula. {Museum, Middlesex Hospital.) run such a rapid course as in the femur. For instance, Ihave had the opportunity of following nine cases of sarcomaof the fenmr throughout their whole clinical course. Allthe patients died within a year of operation from dissemi-nation of the tumour or from local recurrence. In thecase of the tibia I have known several patients, who have 84 CONNECTIVE-TISSUE TUMOURS survived amputation of the leg for periosteal sarcoma, tobe alive and in good health five years later (Fig. 47). A very large proportion of central tumours of the tibia,formerly classed as sarcomas, now rank with myelomas,and I am inclined to think that spindle-celled and round-
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