Perichondritis may occur and be followed by necrosis of cartilage and the formation of abscesses in the submucous tissue of the larynx or in the cellular tissue of the neck.
A submucous resection of the deflected portion is to be preferred.
The œdema consists of an exudation into the loose submucous areolar tissue, which may be of a simple serous character or may become sero-purulent.
Endotheliomas, or mixed tumours, similar to those met with in the parotid gland, also occur in young subjects, and grow in the submucous tissue of the soft palate, usually to one side of the middle line.
A chronic œdematous infiltration, probably of the nature of a lymphangitis, sometimes affects the submucous tissue of the lips of delicate children.
Although it affects mainly the mucous membrane and submucous tissue, it causes a diffuse œdematous swelling of the whole organ, and this may extend to the ary-epiglottic folds and give rise to œdema of the glottis.
A diverticulum consists in the protrusion of the mucous and submucous coats through a defect or weak part in the muscular tunic; it is therefore of the nature of a hernia and not a localised dilatation of the tube as a whole.
Tertiary lesions of mucous membrane and of the submucous cellular tissue are met with chiefly in the tongue, nose, throat, larynx, and rectum.
In the intestinal form the submucous and subperitoneal tissues show alterations from a few hemorrhagic spots to large bloody suffusions, or even gelatinous infiltrations.
The mucous membranes and submucous tissues of the mouth, tongue, pharynx, and larynx become involved in the process and are greatly thickened, inflamed, and infiltrated with serum.
As a fibroid polypus still intra-uterine or presenting through a naturally dilated and thinned-out cervix (submucous pedunculated).
Killian and others secure local anæsthesia by submucous injection of cocaine and adrenalin (see p.
If the point of the catheter lacerates the mucous membrane, the air may be forced into the submucous tissue.
I removed a uterus containing a large globular submucous fibroid from a barren married woman forty-five years of age.
I have not known a patient to become pregnant after abdominal myomectomy for a submucous fibroid, large or small.
The submucous resection (window operation) is not infrequently not carried far enough.
Over the greater part of the circumference this can be done with Freer’s sharp elevator, or with the small sharp elevator employed in submucous resection of the septum.
In removing a large submucous tumour through an incision in the wall of the uterus, the surgeon necessarily opens the uterine cavity (hysterotomy).
The perforation operation should only be employed when the patient is in circumstances where a complete submucous resection cannot be carried out.
In cases where the uterus is removed for septic conditions, such, for example, as an infected or gangrenous fibroid, or when cancer of the corporeal endometrium and a submucous fibroid coexist, I modify the last stages of the operation.
For submucous injection it is better to substitute eucaine or novocaine.
The alarming symptoms follow in a very few hours, in consequence of the formation of numerous minute vesicles, with swelling, from effusion of serum into the submucous tissue.
By this time inflammatory action has been fairly established, the submucous effusion has begun to take place, and it is this that gives rise to the danger.
If the prevailing symptoms have led our attention to the lungs, we find inflammation of the bronchial passages, or, in a few instances, of the substance of the lungs, or the submucous tissue of the cells.
A considerable quantity is effused and organized, the membrane is thickened, perhaps permanently so, and the whole of the submucous cellular tissue becomes oedematous.
Their edges are swollen and overhanging, and their floor is generally formed by the deepest layer of the submucous connective tissue.
Patches of congestion and occasionally submucous ecchymoses may be observed, and croupous exudation occurs here somewhat more frequently than in the small intestine.
Oedematous swelling of the mucous membrane and submucous tissue is often observed for a long period to come; elongated uvulæ, enlarged tonsils, often date back to such an acute attack.
The respiration is unaffected, except when the oedema has invaded the submucous connective tissue of the larynx; then the movements are increased in frequency and difficult.
In a few cases the mucous membrane of the pharynx is coated with diphtheritic false membrane, and the submucous tissue is infiltrated with serum and pus (Murchison).
Remarkable changes have occurred in the smaller vessels, especially in the capillaries and small veins of the villi and submucous tissue.
Thus it is with the upper portion of the larynx about the posterior insertion of the vocal cords (see below); its large amount of loose submucous tissue is liable to swell considerably in acute attacks.
The submucous coat is very strong and consists of loose areolar tissue in which the vessels break up.
External to this is the basement membrane, outside which is a layer of retiform tissue, and this is separated from the submucous coat by a very thin layer of unstriped muscle called the muscularis mucosae.
The intestine has four coats: serous, muscular, submucousand mucous.
It shows the localised ecchymosis as seen from the inner surface, here rather more extensive from the fact that the blood spreads more readily in the submucous tissue.
At the base of the bladder a large submucous hæmorrhage had occurred, the blood-clot had assumed a dark orange colour, and on first opening the viscus the appearance was that of a mass of fæces.
The mucous membrane is raised in patches here and there where the submucous tissues are the most lax.
Maturation occurs more rapidly than upon the skin, and there is more or less purulent infiltration of the submucous connective tissues.
These are usually so-called mucous or adenomatous polypi, being composed of hypertrophied or hyperplastic elements of the mucous membrane with or without new growth of submucous tissue.
Hypertrophy of tissues results, the mucous and submucous tissues thicken, and the glandular structures are stimulated to a condition of morbid activity.
Hemorrhages slight or of moderate severity occur from the capillaries and small arteries and veins in the mucous and submucous coats.
The bottoms of the ulcers are commonly formed by the submucous tissue.
Several cancerous ulcers or multiple cancerous nodules may be found along the intestinal tract, involving the mucous and the submucous coats.
In recent times the supporters of the inflammatory origin of gastric ulcer lay especial stress upon the presence of foci of infiltration with small round cells in the mucous and the submucous coats.
The detention of food above the stricture usually dilates the oesophagus, producing hypertrophy of the mucous membrane and submucous connective tissue, followed in its turn by fatty degeneration.
The inflammatory process may be simply superficial or erythematous, catarrhal or desquamative (Zenker and Ziemssen), or it may be phlegmonous, and thus interest the submucous tissues as well as the mucous membrane.
They are usually situated in the submucous coat, where they form one or often several distinctly circumscribed tumors.
In some instances the submucous tissue of the pharynx is greatly relaxed, and the mucous membrane lies upon the substructure in thick folds.
If the rectum be affected the mucous membrane becomes thickened, polypoid growths form and large submucous haemorrhages may take place.
In man the parasites and ova have been found in the minute veins of the bladder, ureter and pelvis of the kidney (more rarely in other organs), where they infest the mucous and submucous tissues.
Bacteria can be demonstrated at times in the submucous layers; however, no type has been found to predominate, the flora being composed of the usual intestinal forms.
The mucous membrane of the womb differs from all the rest, by having no submucous or fibrovascular layer; the mucous glands of the womb are imbedded and extend directly into the muscular tissue of the organ.
Hemorrhage of the mucous membrane takes place very readily, owing to the delicacy of the tissues and the great vascularity of the submucous layer, and there is a much greater tendency to hemorrhage in some persons than in others.
Slight forms of structural aphonia are of a catarrhal nature, resulting from more or less congestion and tumefaction of the mucous and submucous tissues of the larynx and adjoining parts.
Severer cases are frequently occasioned by serous infiltration into the submucous tissue, with or without inflammation of the mucous membrane of the larynx and of its vicinity.
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