. The diseases of children : medical and surgical. surface was thickly over-grown with hair. As usual in these cases,the child was idiotic. NCBVUS 429 cystic lymphangiomata. Instances of this condition are seen, as shown byVirchovv, in niacroglossia, described at p. 176. Hygroma and one form of so-called giant foot are similar conditions(tig. 87). Sometimes in giant foot the cutaneous lymphatics are clearly visibleas transparent, dilated, tortuous canals running in the skin : the part is greatlyenlarged, and spongy on pressure. The disease is a rare one, and probablypressure or cautery punctur
. The diseases of children : medical and surgical. surface was thickly over-grown with hair. As usual in these cases,the child was idiotic. NCBVUS 429 cystic lymphangiomata. Instances of this condition are seen, as shown byVirchovv, in niacroglossia, described at p. 176. Hygroma and one form of so-called giant foot are similar conditions(tig. 87). Sometimes in giant foot the cutaneous lymphatics are clearly visibleas transparent, dilated, tortuous canals running in the skin : the part is greatlyenlarged, and spongy on pressure. The disease is a rare one, and probablypressure or cautery puncture would be the most successful mode of has recorded a case in which ulceration has occurred, and c|uotesBusey that congenital giant foot is commoner in females, and most frequentin the right leg ; the temperature of the part may or may not be , if they occur, readily heal. Occasionally in niacroglossia, as in a case of ours, the superficial lym-phatics form minute transparent cysts on the surface of the tongue ; here. Fig. 87.—Lymphatic Nsevus of theFoot. The soles of the two feet areseen, and in the affected one theextremities of the toes can just bemade out, embedded in the mass ofnsevus tissue. Dilated and varicoselymphatics were visible in the skin. Fig. 86.—Degenerated Naevus of Scalp. removal of part of the tongue might possibly be required to prevent suffocation,since these growths are liable to rapid increase in size. A large tumour of thethigh, of congenital origin, that we removed a short time ago from a child of2\ years, was made of spongy tissue exactly like a nasvus, but the spaceswere filled with lymph instead of blood ; other similar cases have beenrecorded. (Vide also chapter on Tumours.) Hoggan has described multiplelymphatic ntevi of the skin, a condition believed commonly to accompanyblood n^evi, and to be much more frequent than is supposed ; these growthsare not conspicuous by their colour, and are therefore commonly overlo
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