The round-cell type is the most common; it grows rapidly, and tends to ulcerate and fungate, pain becoming severe when the growth has broken down.
As it increases in size it spreads over the alveoli of several teeth, becomes softer, and assumes a dark violet colour, and if subjected to pressure or irritation may ulcerate and bleed.
They show a tendency toulcerate and fungate, giving rise to a fœtid discharge, and may be mistaken for epithelioma; they are also liable to become the seat of epithelioma.
The after-treatment consists in keeping the leg on a pillow between sand-bags, and carrying out the usual massage and movement.
In injuries involving the lumbo-sacral region it is sometimes advisable to perform laminectomy for the purpose of suturing divided nerve cords.
There is no crepitation on movement or other signs of involvement of the articular surfaces.
In a large proportion of cases of displaced meniscus in which the condition assumes the recurrent type, it is found, on opening the joint, that, in addition to being unduly mobile, the meniscus is torn or lacerated.
He becomes more and more unfit for work, and a marked projection appears in the back and may come to involve several vertebræ.
It is in cases of this kind that the ambulatory method of treatment yields its best results.
In some cases, the integuments are tense and discoloured, with large vessels running on their surface; the tumour feels soft and fluctuating, though the skin may notulcerate till long afterwards.
The internal lamellæ may ulcerate in consequence of the pressure; but this seldom happens; the matter is discharged externally.
Still, notwithstanding the salutary effusion, the bowel may ulcerate at its upper part, and, giving way within the belly, produce rapid death.
In cases in which the head of the thigh bone, or the bony socket of the joint has become so diseased as to cause it to ulcerate and break down, all portions of diseased bone should be thoroughly removed by a surgical operation.
The irritation of the discharge may ulcerate the lining mucous membrane of the nose, causing serpentine gutters with bottoms resembling those of the chancres themselves.
Varicose veins may ulcerate and form an abscess in the surrounding tissues, or they may rupture from internal blood pressure and the blood form large tumors where the tissues are soft.
Growths of the former character extend laterally, ulcerate early, and are known as superficial cutaneous cancer.
These go on and ulcerate until the blood vessels may be eaten into and bleeding sometimes results, it eats through the bowel, then there is perforation and peritonitis.
It may ulcerate through the bowels and cause peritonitis.
Those sutures which involve the endometrium will ulcerate into the uterine cavity and cause irregular slight losses of blood until they escape.
Until surgeons fully realized the importance of thoroughly sterilizing the silk employed for the pedicles in ovariotomy, it was quite common for the silk loops to ulcerate through the bladder wall and set up cystitis.
It has been established by experiments on the long uterine cornu of rabbits, that an encircling ligature will ulcerate through, leaving the lumen of the cornu intact.
These sinuses may be very tortuous, with pockets, blind passages, or diverticulae, and are known as horseshoe fistulae when they commence at one side of the bowel and ulcerate around it to a point opposite before making an opening.
If the stone does not ulcerate through, in this position it does no damage, for the gall-bladder, as has been stated, may be closed without any apparent detriment.
Like other foreign bodies, a gall-stone may ulceratethrough the intestine, producing fatal peritonitis.
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