ABDOMINAL TUMOURS.

Extra-abdominal desmoid tumours.

Desmoid tumours are not common but have a distinct resemblance to fibrosarcomata. Their clinical appearance and progress should be recognised since failure to distinguish them from sarcomata could result in extensive and unnecessarily mutilating operations. Three cases of extra-abdominal desmoid tumours are reported. Two of the patients had tumours arising from multicentric foci in the same lim...

Abdominal Tumours and Abdominal Dropsy in Women

Multicentric extra-abdominal desmoid tumours.

Despite their classification as benign, desmoid tumours are difficult to diagnose and manage. They are prone to recurrence and resection can be debilitating. Rarely, synchronous or metachronous multicentric desmoid tumours occur and may require further excision. Therefore, early detection of recurrence and multicentric tumours is vital. We present a case of metachronous desmoid tumours, and rev...

Abdominal tumours in infants and children.

If abdominal tumours in children were symptomatic more often than they are, diagnosis would be simple and indications for management clear. However, abdominal tumours are usually silent. Frequently they are discovered accidentally. They may well be diagnosed by chance in the systematic work-up for apparently unrelated symptoms, as, for example, in a child with a fever of unknown origin who has ...

Diagnosis and Surgical Treatment of Abdominal Tumours

ovarian and allied tumours. It is a thoroughly practical work, well written and illustrated, and is a valuable record of the author's long experience and work, which in great part form the history of ovariotomy. The chapter on the rise and progress of this operation is both interesting and instructive. As regards the influence of Listerism in lessening the mortality after ovariotomy, the author...