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On Cancer, Its Allies and Other Tumours; With Special Reference to Their Medical and Surgical Treatment

On Cancer, Its Allies and Other Tumours; With Special Reference to Their Medical and Surgical Treatment

Purcell, Ferdinand Albert

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ISBN10: 1150004886
ISBN13: 9781150004889
Publisher: General Books
Pages: 84
Weight: 0.37
Height: 0.17 Width: 7.44 Depth: 9.69
Language: English
This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1881. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... chapter xxxviii E. psammoma (viechow), sarcome angiolithique (mm. cornil and ranvier) Allusion must here be made to a rare form of growth occasionally met with in the brain, spinal cord, and their membranes, to which Virchow has given the name of psammoma, from the circumstance of its containing brain-sand (ftoc, sand). mm. Cornil and Ranvier have styled this tumour sarcome angiolithique, from the close connection found by them to exist between the sandy particles and the small blood-vessels. This growth, although having but little resemblance to the sarcomata is usually classified with this group of new formation, but which I make a distinct class of. Its characteristic feature is that it consists largely of calcareous particles. The calcareous particles are contained in peculiar concentric bodies--the corpora amylacea--where they give rise to the socalled brain-sand, hence the name of the growth. The calcified corpora amylacea, associated with a varying quantity of a cellular and fibrillated tissue and blood-vessels, make up the growth. The cells bear a close resemblance to delicate irregular pavement epithelium. Psammoma is usually met with growing from the membranes of the brain or spinal cord or from the choroid plexus, where it occurs mainly as a cystic formation, and causing cerebral symptoms only when attaining a large size, or it may assume rather the appearance of a papillary or warty growth springing from the arachnoid or dura mater, and under these circumstances the flattened slowly growing projection may give rise to no symptoms during life. It is then of no pathological importance except when of sufficient large size to produce symptoms from pressure. ...

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