Tumours, innocent and malignant; their clinical characters and appropriate treatment (1911) (14597770829)

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Title: Tumours, innocent and malignant; their clinical characters and appropriate treatment

Year: 1911 (1910s)

Authors: Bland-Sutton, John, Sir, 1855-1936

Subjects: Neoplasms

Publisher: New York : Funk

Contributing Library: Columbia University Libraries

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SARCOMA 547 are more properly classed with the carcinomas than with thesarcomas ; at the same time he is in agreement with precedingobservers that malignant tumours of the testis arise in thehilum of this organ. Tumours containing transversely striated muscle-cellssometimes grow from the testicle (Fig. 288). Sarcomas.—In addition to teratomas arising in theparadidymis, malignant tumours possessing the structure

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Fig. 289.—Testicle in section. A, Epididymis ; B, sarcomatous tissue ; c, remnant ofthe body of the oigan. From a man aged 28, who had noticed an enlarge-ment of his testicle for eight months. Castration was performed. He diedten months later. and clinical features of sarcomas arise in the body of thetestis. Such tumours have oat-shaped cells, or round cells,and some have the characters of lympho-sarcomas. Whatever view pathologists may take of the structuralcharacters of testicular tumours, the surgeon never forgets thegrim reality that the majority of these complex growthsquickly destroy life (Fig. 289). One of the most prominent clinical features of malignant 548j iTUMOUBS OF THE TESTIS tumours of the testis is the rapidity and extent of the lymph-gland infection. The great size which the lumbar lymph-glands attain in some patients is truly astonishing. Theconnective tissue in the hilum of the testis is described asconsisting of fine fasciculi and laminae of areolar tissue,these

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