Heron Watson in 1866, has been lately frequently performed for carcinoma and sarcoma.
Gross has collected 79 cases, 57 of which were forcarcinoma of oesophagus, all of which died within a few weeks, except eight who survived for periods varying from three to seven months.
Transition forms between adenoma and carcinoma are also met with in the rectum and large intestine, and these should be treated on the same lines as cancer.
The innocent forms are the papilloma and the adenoma; the malignant, the carcinoma or cancer.
A carcinoma is a malignant tumour, and the malignancy is made much worse by the stimulus of pregnancy with its increased blood supply.
It seems, however, probable that in every case of inoperablecarcinoma of the uterus complicating pregnancy a caesarean section would hasten the maternal death.
The maternal deaths from carcinoma of the uterus during pregnancy is, according to the latest and most favourable statistics, 30 per centum.
Sometimes carcinoma (a cancer) complicates pregnancy--once in 2000 cases is above the average.
If the woman with an inoperable carcinoma uteri may be delivered without section, should such a delivery be chosen although it raises the chances of mortality as regards the child from about 12 per centum to at the least 50 per centum?
The gullet is rarely compressed; if marked difficulty in swallowing develops, some additional factor should be suspected, notably carcinoma at the junction of the pharynx with the œsophagus.
The tumours most frequently met with in the pituitary body are of the nature of adenoma with hyperplasia and cystic degeneration; carcinoma and sarcoma also occur.
In men over fifty, the resemblance to carcinoma may be very close.
Primary carcinoma may also occur in a supernumerary thyreoid, and in the para-thyreoid glands.
In the lower third of the esophagus, cylindric cellcarcinoma may be found associated with a like lesion in the stomach.
Cure has resulted in one case of the author following bronchoscopic removal of an endothelioma from the bronchus; and a limited carcinoma of the bronchus has been reported cured by bronchoscopic removal, with cauterization of the base.
Sarcoma and carcinoma of the thyroid when perforating the trachea may become pedunculated.
It is surprising that, in view of the fact that carcinoma of the penis, starting with such frequency in the prepuce, should have left any doubt but that with the absence of this appendage there would follow less liability to cancer.
Carcinoma of the peritoneum is generally colloid in character, and is often secondary to growths in other organs.
Heidenhain records a very severe and prolonged case caused, as shown later at the operation and postmortem examination, by carcinoma of the pancreas.
This will always retain its place in operative surgery as a palliative and life-saving operation for carcinomatous stenosis of the lower part of the colon, and in cases of carcinoma of the rectum in which operation is not feasible.
The emaciation and exhaustion are extreme, and the patient is as miserable as one with carcinoma of the esophagus, food either not being taken at all or only upon urgent compulsion.
Herbert tells of a case resembling carcinoma of the tongue, which was really due to the lodgment of a piece of tooth in that organ.
There is a possibility that some of these cases of Hippocrates were instances of pyloric carcinoma or of stenosis of the pylorus.
Carcinoma of the cervix should be removed at once.
The third case was that of a man of sixty-two with carcinoma of the pylorus.
Haultain gives three examples of pseudocyesis, the first with no apparent cause, the second due to carcinoma of the uterus, while in the third there was a small fibroid in the anterior wall of the uterus.
The pregnancy was complicated by carcinoma of the uterus.
Thus carcinoma is a rarity under thirty years of age; the mammary gland of the female is more liable to carcinoma than the male; while on the other hand the esophagus, lip and tongue of the male are more liable to attack.
Particles of a carcinoma (metastasis) floating in the blood stream, finding lodgment elsewhere also establish new growths (metastatic).
Koch for inoperable carcinoma of the pelvic organs, that he wished Dr.
Wassermann experimented with mice inoculated with transplanted tumors of the types of carcinoma and sarcoma.
Recommended in the internal treatment of Carcinoma and some other cases of faulty metabolism.
In short, permanent riddance from mammary carcinomais scarcely to be expected by operation, or any other means.
And if the parotid do become the seat of carcinoma or medullary sarcoma, it is impossible to remove it with either safety or advantage.
Carcinoma seldom occurs before the age of thirty, and generally not till a later period of life; there are instances, however, of its appearance at a much earlier period.
Sarcoma is most often seen in the young; carcinoma in the middle-aged and elderly.
Carcinoma may be primary or secondary, but the kidney is not so prone to malignant disease as other organs, such as the stomach, bowel or liver.
The location of the tumor at its commencement is important, as, for instance, in diagnosing between lipoma and carcinoma, the former being more or less movable under the skin, while a carcinoma develops in the skin.
In this manner I was able to remove the large carcinoma shown in Fig.
Malignant tumours, both carcinoma and sarcoma, in which an early diagnosis has been made, and so long as they remain intrinsic.
Of the latter, carcinoma (28) was more common than sarcoma (18).
Where carcinoma of the body of the uterus is known to exist, and in old age, it should only be resorted to with the greatest caution, if at all.
I shall attempt to show that thyrotomy is the best operation for early malignant disease, whether carcinoma or sarcoma, so long as it remains intrinsic.
But in carcinoma and in the various forms of septic endometritis, the uterus not only contains many pathogenic bacteria, but acts also as a continual source of infection to the vagina and external genital organs.
The importance of Krishaber’s division of carcinoma of the larynx into two forms, intrinsic and extrinsic, was recognized by Butlin, to whom the greatest credit is due for having first shown that thyrotomy ought to be reinstated.
It is most commonly used for cases of extrinsic carcinoma of the larynx: thus C.
On Secondary (metastatic) Carcinoma of the Ovaries.
At the operation the cœlomic ostium was not only patent, but the carcinoma protruded through it and nodules of growth could be seen on the wall of the rectum at the point where the tube rested on the bowel.
After sexual congress the vagina contains pathogenic organisms, and in conditions such as carcinoma of the cervix and body of the uterus, and in all forms of vaginitis, many varieties of bacteria are present in great numbers.
The age at which women are most subject to carcinoma (cancer) of the uterus is towards the decline of sexual life.
The varieties of malignant disease met with in the uterus are sarcoma, carcinoma and chorion-epithelioma malignum.
Carcinoma of the ovary is rarely primary, but it is a common situation for secondary cancer to that of the breast, gall-bladder or gastro-intestinal tract.
Carcinoma of distant organs does not seem to frequently involve the rectum by secondary deposition.
It exists in connection with carcinoma of the oesophagus, with dilatation, and with stricture of the oesophagus, and with other diseases obstructing the tube externally or internally.
Muller's, in which their presence rendered difficult the diagnosis of simple ulcer from carcinoma (Jenaische Zeitschrift, v.
Carcinoma probably furnishes a favorable medium for its growth.
These exudates are most frequently seen in carcinoma and tuberculosis of the peritoneum.
Carcinoma seems to furnish an especially favorable medium for the growth of the Boas-Oppler bacillus, hence this micro-organism is frequently present.
A matron old, with long unrest From carcinoma of the breast, This Bliss-ful doctor rushed to see, And begged his aid on bended knee.
A carcinoma or cancer is a malignant tumor, that is, one that tends to grow worse and to reappear if it apparently is removed.
A frequent symptom of carcinoma of the uterus is hemorrhage at irregular times after the menopause.
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