The epidermoid cancers are less likely to recur after early removal; the medullary cancers are of rapid growth and prone to ulceration; while the fibrous or scirrhous forms are of extreme slowness of growth.
Scirrhous cords or fibrous tumors should be dissected out and removed before they have become large and begun breaking down.
Enlarged or scirrhous cords follow infection of the wound, usually with spores of a certain fungus (Botryomyces).
A pressure made on the brachial vein and its branches by scirrhous glands in the axilla, is a common cause of this state.
This has been applied externally with benefit for scirrhous cancer, and to ease the pain of nervous gout.
The sweet Marjoram has also been successfully employed externally for healing scirrhous tumours of the breast.
The dense consistence of scirrhous cancer is due to the predominance of the fibrous stroma, the cancerous alveoli being relatively small in size and few in number.
In the more slowly-growing scirrhous and colloid cancers the ulcers are more likely to be superficial.
Scirrhous cancer assumes often the form of a diffuse thickening and induration of the gastric walls, particularly in the pyloric region, where it causes stenosis of the pyloric orifice.
Maurizio has also reported a case of scirrhouscancer of the cardia with scirrhous cancer of the pylorus (Annal.
This scirrhous base is often exposed after the destruction of the greater part of the soft cancer by ulceration and sloughing.
Irregular hard nodules frequently project from diffuse scirrhous growths into the interior of the stomach.
The cavity of the stomach may be so shrunken by scirrhous thickening and contraction of the gastric walls that it will hardly contain a hen's egg.
The duration is much influenced also by the character of the cancer, whether scirrhous or medullary.
It was a common custom to call only the ulcerated scirrhous tumors cancerous.
Next in frequency is scirrhous cancer, and then comes colloid cancer, which, although not rare, is much less frequent than the other varieties.
It should not be forgotten, however, that in emaciated subjects the head of the pancreas may be so prominent as to be mistaken for a scirrhous growth.
The microscope may also be required to distinguish the irregularly thickened margins of old ulcers from scirrhous cancer.
If the alveoli are small and the intervening stroma is abundant and composed of dense fibrous tissue, the tumour is hard, and is known as a scirrhous cancer--a form which is most frequently met with in the breast.
A bitch, naturally ill-tempered, and that would not suffer a stranger to touch her, had scirrhous enlargement on one of her teats.
A few days afterwards a pointer bitch was brought to my infirmary, with a largescirrhous tumour near the anterior teat on the left side.
Although numerous abscesses have been formed in the lower part of it, and there has been considerable discharge, viscid or purulent, the upper part has remained as hard and almost as scirrhous as before.
On opening the body after death, the walls of the whole of the right extremity of the stomach were found in a scirrhous and cancerous condition, and thickened to the extent of about two inches.
In this state, the walls of the organ are sometimes increased in thickness to the extent of ten or twelve lines, and are sometimes found also in a scirrhous or cancerous condition.
Now the vessels are made straiter or closer several ways; sometimes by inflammation, scirrhous or other tumours; sometimes by compressions, scars, or by flesh or membranes that grow after a wound.
Mention is made of its successful use in scirrhous affections of the liver, jaundice, cachexies, and menstrual suppressions.
The leaves of Henbane are said to have been applied externally with advantage, in the way of poultice, to resolve scirrhous tumours, and to remove some pains of the rheumatic and arthritic kind.
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