. A treatise on the diseases of the eye. , lobulated, and very disfig-uring, almost hiding the cornea. From their close analogy to the structureof the skin, these tumors have been called dermoid. They sometimes,however, appear to consist only of elastic fibrillar connective tissue, rudi-ments of true skin, fat, hairs, and sebaceous follicles. Marked increase intheir size, or recurrence after removal, appear to be due to an increase intheir fatty constituents. They may be readily excised, but care must betaken not to endeavor to remove them thoroughly from the cornea, as theysometimes extend de
. A treatise on the diseases of the eye. , lobulated, and very disfig-uring, almost hiding the cornea. From their close analogy to the structureof the skin, these tumors have been called dermoid. They sometimes,however, appear to consist only of elastic fibrillar connective tissue, rudi-ments of true skin, fat, hairs, and sebaceous follicles. Marked increase intheir size, or recurrence after removal, appear to be due to an increase intheir fatty constituents. They may be readily excised, but care must betaken not to endeavor to remove them thoroughly from the cornea, as theysometimes extend deeply into its structure.^ [Dr. Taliaferro, of Kentucky, has recorded^ an interesting case of afemale, aged fifteen, who had a congenital dermoid tumor on each tumor was of a delicate pink color at its base, becoming brownish at 1 ]\[orl)id Anatomv of the Human Eve, 1, 32. « Vide artidos On Dermoid Tumors, A. f. O., vii. 2. and xii. 2, 227. 3 Amerirnn .Tournal of the Arodical Science.;, 1841. N. ii. TUMORS OF THE CONJUNCTIVA, ETC. 201 its apex. The tumor on the left eye, Fig. 79, at its base measured five linesin one diameter, by three and a half in the other, and rose in a conoidalform to about six lines in height. It almost covered the lower two-thirdsof the pupil. From the apex grew some ten or twelve hairs, about sixteenlines in length, and a shade darker than the cilia. The tumor of the right [Fig. 78. Fig. 79]
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