Fibro-cystic tumor

Fibro-Cystic Tumor, Multiple Cystic Tumor, or Cystoma-

tous Sarcoma of the Perineum-Urinary Abscesses and ·

Fistules from Chronic Stricture of the Urethra.

BY S. W. GROSS, M.D.,

Lecturer on the Diseases of the Genito-Urinary Organs in the Jefferson Medical College, and Sur-

geon to the Philadelphia Orthopedic Hospital.

I was consulted in July, 1870, by a shoemaker, 58 years of

age, whose perineum presented a most grotesque appearance.

Dependent from the right side of the anal perineum hung a

tumor of fifteen years' standing, which was ovoid in shape, with

a broad attachment, and measured around its largest circumfer-

ence eight inches and seven inches antero-posteriorly. It was

painless, freely movable, and covered by healthy integuments,

which were dimpled above, while its surface was somewhat

irregular, rather than finely lobulated. To the touch it was

unevenly elastic, and, in parts, soft and compressible, imparting

a sensation of both fluid and solid, and resembling a fatty or

nevoid growth.

58 year old human males july 1870 in the united states sarcomas shoemakers from the united states tumors of male genital organs

1871

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