Sarcoma of the female breast : based upon a study of one hundred and fifty-six cases / by Samuel W. Gross.

  • Gross, Samuel W. (Samuel Weissell), 1837-1889.
Date:
1887
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Credit: Sarcoma of the female breast : based upon a study of one hundred and fifty-six cases / by Samuel W. Gross. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    AMERICAN JOURNAL THE MEDICAL SCIENCES. JULY, 1 887. SARCOMA OF THE FEMALE BREAST; BASED UPON A STUDY OF ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY-SIX CASES. By Samuel W, Gross, M.D., LL.D., PROFESSOR OF THE PRINCIPLES OF SURGERY AND CLINICAL SURGERY IN THE JEFFERSON MEDICAL COLLEGE OF PHILADELPHIA. In my Treatise on Tumors of the Mammary Gland, published in 1880, may be found a chapter on sarcoma, in which the general pathology and life-history of the affection are deduced from an analysis of sixty cases confirmed by microscopical examination. This account remains up to the present time the most trustworthy description of this neoplasm with which I am acquainted; and it constitutes the only one in which an attempt has been made upon anything ap^Droaching an extended scale to determine the relations which exist between its minute features and its clinical characters. Feeling that many points were still obscure, I have, during the past seven years, kept a careful record of my own cases, and noted those reported by other surgeons, so that my collection now embraces one hundred and fifty-six cases,^ including nineteen of my own, a critical examination of which affords the data for this paper. The varieties and subvarieties of sarcoma of the female mamma are the same as those met with in other organs. The principal ones—the spindle-celled, round-celled, and giant-celled—are determined by the 1 I have to express my thanks to Dr. Sands, Dr. Markoe, and Dr. Bull, of New York, and Mr. Bryant, of London, for unpublished cases from their practice, and to Mr. Henry Morris, of London, Mr. Hum- phry, of Cambridge, Mr. Banks, of Liverpool, Mr. Whitson, of Glasgow, and Mr. Page, of Newcastle- on-Tyne, for the final histories of their recorded cases.