A system of surgery . Fig. 100.—Multiple Chondromata. The lad was stunted from rictots. adults; they are often multiple (Fig. 100), but a solitary chondromais not a rarity. Individuals with multiple chondromata often presentevidences of rickets, and it is a curious circumstance that the tissueof a chondroma resembles, histologically, the bluish translucentcartilage so characteristic of a rickety epiphysial line. Thesetumours are always encapsuled, and form deep hollows in thebones with which they are connected: they are painless, growslowly, and are firm to the touch. Mucoid degeneration is co
A system of surgery . Fig. 100.—Multiple Chondromata. The lad was stunted from rictots. adults; they are often multiple (Fig. 100), but a solitary chondromais not a rarity. Individuals with multiple chondromata often presentevidences of rickets, and it is a curious circumstance that the tissueof a chondroma resembles, histologically, the bluish translucentcartilage so characteristic of a rickety epiphysial line. Thesetumours are always encapsuled, and form deep hollows in thebones with which they are connected: they are painless, growslowly, and are firm to the touch. Mucoid degeneration is com-mon in them, and the softened parts may furnish slight fluctua-tion : this serves to distinguish them from osteomata with which 4U TUMOURS. they are apt to be confounded in diagnosis. Chondromata areprone to ossify. Tumours of the testis and parotid which contain cartilage arenot chondromata, but chondrifying sarcomata. 2. Ecchondroses.—These may be denned as small local out-growths of cartilage : they are very
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