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Title: Manual of pathological anatomy
Year: 1875 (1870s)
Authors: Jones, C. Handfield, (Charles Handfield), 1819-1890 Sieveking, Edward H. (Edward Henry), 1816-1904 Payne, Joseph Frank, 1840-1910, ed
Subjects: Anatomy, Pathological Anatomy Pathology
Publisher: London : Churchill
Contributing Library: Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine
Digitizing Sponsor: Open Knowledge Commons and Harvard Medical School

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often inseparable from the surroundingtissue. External cavernous tumours occur either in the skin orin the subcutaneous fatty tissue. Of internal organs they occurmost frequently in the liver, where, however, they are by nomeans common. They have also been observed in the spleen,kidneys, suprarenal capsules, intestines, uterus, and ovaries, andon the inner surface of the bladder, and are sometimes multiple.*It is only in the rarest instances that they lead to haemorrhage orany serious affection, and they are strictly innocent in their charac-ter. It is probable, however, that under the name of fungns hsema-todes instances of this disease have been confounded with cancer. VII.—NEW GROWTH OF MUSCULAR TISSUE; MUSCULAR TUMOURS; MYOMA. Of the two kinds of muscular fibre normally existing in thebody, the striated is very rarely formed under pathological con-ditions. It is, however, produced for the restoration of muscleswhich have been wasted or degenerated by disease, and more FiCx. 23.
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Section of muscular tumour of uterus. rarely when loss of substance has resulted from a wound. In thelatter case, muscle is often replaced by connective tissue. In thehypertrophy of muscles there is also a true new growth of mus-cular fibres. Tumours consisting of striated muscular fibre areamong the greatest pathological rarities. The only cases in whichthis tissue composed the great mass of a tumour are those of atumour from the testicle of a man aged eighteen, observed by • For illustrative cases see ** Trans. Path. Soc, 1860, xi. 267 ; 1869, xx. 203. NEW GROWTH OF NEHYOUS TISSUE. 151 Bokitansky, aTid two cases of similar tumours in the head of afoetus. Striated muscle has in a very few cases been observed asa part of tumours of different structure. -New growth of smooth muscular fibre has never yet been ob-served in the restoration of lost parts or the healing of wounds.It undoubtedly takes place in the hypertrophies of structureswhich normally contain it, as in the enlargement

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