Identifier: internationalenc03ashh (find matches)
Title: The international encyclopaedia of surgery; a systematic treatise on the theory and practice of surgery
Year: 1881 (1880s)
Authors: Ashhurst, John, 1839-1900
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Publisher: New York : W. Wood & company
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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und in a lipomaremoved from the scapular region. They have been known to originate asa result of injury. Gross cites a case, reported by Dr. J. Mason Warren, of aman thirty-six years old, who had a large aneurism by anastomosis, situated onthe lobe of the ear, which resulted from a frost-bite which the patient had suf-fered in his sixteenth year. In addition to the tissues already mentioned inwhich angeiomata are developed, may be mentioned the spleen, kidney, liver,and lung. The liver is frequently, the lung very rarely, involved. In bones,this disease exhibits the same erectile characters as in other structures. Itoccurs in the flat bones by preference, especially those of the cranium, jaws, andscapula, being often very painful, and grave as to prognosis. Angeiomataare not infrequently situated on the labia of women. Holmes Coote has ob-served serous cysts in connection with these vascular growths. An explana-tion of their formation is, that communication of a portion of one dilated
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U€<). ANGEIOMATA. 369 vessel with other vessels is cut off, and that the corpuscles and coloring matterof the blood disappear, the serum remaining as a cystic fluid. The question of the relation of these tumors to carcinomata and sarcomatais worthy of consideration. J. Miiller has reported a malignant (recurrent) Fig. 531.

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