Removal of Large Renal Tumour by Abdominal Section

Large Extra-Peritoneal Polycystic Ovarian Tumour Completely Removed by Abdominal Section without Opening into the Peritoneal Cavity

own experience of considerably over 300 cases of abdominal operations, which I have had an opportunity of assisting at or observing with Dr Halliday Croom and the late Dr Angus Macdonald, I have seen nothing at all resembling this condition. The frequency of the extra-peritoneal development and growth of papillomatous ovarian tumours is well recognised by all authorities. In fact, this inter-li...

Case of Large Enchondromatous Tumour of the Testicle; Removal; Recovery

The tumour occupied the scrotum ; it was heavy and firm, almost circular in shape, with a broad base, lying in the pubis and perineum, and measured 27 inches in circumference. Its surface was gently lobulated all over, and, three months previously, had become ulcerated in five places ; these sores, running into each other, covered about half the entire extent of surface, and exuded a thin sanio...

Removal of a Very Large Tumour from the Neck

Abdominal Section

This patient, who had been operated on for pyosalpinx in April 1911 came back to hospital with a large ventral hernia. The abdominal section done on 13th December, 1912, was for the cure of the hernia. This was the first case done at this hospital with intravenous ether anaesthesia. The apparatus used was Rood's Apparatus for Infusion Anaesthesia (Meyer & Meltzer ?6-18-G). Five minutes before s...

Solid Tumour Section

Classified into three categories depending on cell type; spindle cell melanoma has the best prognosis, epithelioid is most likey to spread, whilst mixed cell melanomas have an intermediate behaviour; (of note, the size and position of the tumour also affects the prognosis of individual melanomas); uveal melanomas can invade locally within the eye, and form deposits in other organs, but most com...