A manual of modern surgery : an exposition of the accepted doctrines and approved operative procedures of the present time, for the use of students and practitioners . y nucle-ated cells distended with fluid fat andconnected by a variable amount ofconnective tissue. As these cells in-crease in number by proliferation theyare filled with fat, and thus the growthacquires bulk. The mass is usuallysurrounded by a capsule of condensedconnective tissue. It is their locali-zation that distinguishes fatty tumorsfrom ordinary obesity. If lipomasrequire treatment they are to be re-moved by means of a fr
A manual of modern surgery : an exposition of the accepted doctrines and approved operative procedures of the present time, for the use of students and practitioners . y nucle-ated cells distended with fluid fat andconnected by a variable amount ofconnective tissue. As these cells in-crease in number by proliferation theyare filled with fat, and thus the growthacquires bulk. The mass is usuallysurrounded by a capsule of condensedconnective tissue. It is their locali-zation that distinguishes fatty tumorsfrom ordinary obesity. If lipomasrequire treatment they are to be re-moved by means of a free incisionthrough the skin, which enables thesurgeon to turn them out of the cap-sule with great ease. No portion ofthe tumor should be left behind toreproduce the growth. Chondromas or CartilaginousTumors. These growths are found especially ^S fbroid tumors of back (Auamong young patients, and are fre-quently connected with the bones of the fingers. They are rarelydeveloped from preexisting cartilage. They occur also in glands, suchas the parotid, testicle and mamma, and occasionally in the connected with the phalanges of the hands or feet they are. 96 TUMORS. Cartilaginous tumors are usually multiple, otherwise they are single smooth, hard and elastic, and often lobulated masses; of slow devel-opment, usually surrounded by Fig. 21.
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