Bearing in mind that in none of the other 39 cases were myelocytes demonstrated, one does not hesitate to explain their presence in the blood in this single case by the metastases in the bone-marrow.
Reinbach has found them in a case of lymphosarcoma withmetastases in the bone-marrow.
Besides these he describes a case of lymphosarcoma of the neck with metastases in the bone-marrow, in which an unexampled increase of the white blood corpuscles, and especially of the eosinophil cells was found.
Secondary cancer is a comparatively common disease, and, as in metastases in other tissues, the secondary growths resemble the parent tumour.
Excepting certain cancers which give rise to metastases by lymphatic permeation (Handley), the common metastases arising in the bone-marrow reach their destination through the blood-stream.
High amputation is unnecessary in the more benign sarcomas, and in the more malignant forms is usually unavailing to prevent a fatal issue either from local recurrence or from metastases in the lungs or elsewhere.
Melanotic Cancer of Forehead withMetastases in Lymph Vessels and Glands.
The neighbouring lymph glands are infected early, but metastasesto other organs are not common.
The lymph glands become enlarged after the tumour bursts through the capsule; and metastases to the lungs and bones, particularly the skull, sternum, and mandible, are common.
After such free removal these tumours show little tendency to recur and metastases are rare.
The lymphatic extensions of tumorous growths, and the often unsuspected metastases in distant organs must of necessity escape the effects of purely local treatment.
On the other hand, the metastases of mouse tumors in the internal organs present an infiltrative mode of growth and thus approximate very much more closely to the human type of tumors.
Cylindrical-celled epithelioma presents the same gross appearances and the same tendency to ulceration and to the formation of metastases which characterize medullary cancer.
Cancer of the stomach in the majority of cases is accompanied with {567} metastases in other parts of the body.
Medullary carcinoma is more frequently accompanied by metastases than the other forms.
These metastases seem best explained by the theory of implantation of cancerous elements which have been carried from the primary growth in the stomach into the intestine.
Cancerous metastases are produced by the transportation of cancerous elements by the lymphatic current or by the blood-current.
Nevertheless, numerous metastases existed in the lymphatic glands of the omentum and of the lesser curvature (Jahresb.
The tumor has a tendency to spread to the omenta and to the rest of the peritoneum, where it may form enormous masses, but it rarely gives rise to metastases in the interior of organs.
Cancer of the liver increases the liability to metastases in the lungs, but the latter may be present without any cancerous deposits in the liver.
Metastases may already exist when the tumor is small and before it has given rise to any symptoms.
Metastases and adhesions were absent in only 5 out of 52 cases of pyloric cancer in which either pylorectomy or exploratory laparotomy was performed (Rydygier).
The older beliefs in the suppression of the lochia and the metastases of milk have long since been relegated to the domain of old nurses' lore, and do not call for serious discussion.
If these metastases are capable of concentrating iodine (less than 10% of them are), they can be located by scanning the whole body in the manner that was just described.
When a thyroid cancer is discovered, therefore, a doctor may look for metastases before deciding to operate.
The metastases usually are distributed by the circulation.
In cases of metastatic invasions of bone, spontaneous fractures oftentimes are the first symptom which calls attention to the fact that metastaseshave occurred.
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