Some considerations on the treatment of cutaneous malignant epithelioma (cancers) / by A.R. Robinson.

  • Robinson, Andrew Rose, 1845-1924.
Date:
1892
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Credit: Some considerations on the treatment of cutaneous malignant epithelioma (cancers) / by A.R. Robinson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    not always be diagnosed with the microscope from such bodies ; they furthermore, like these, can per¬ form amoeboid movements and travel from one pari to another. The tumor, therefore, spreads not by centric growth, giving a sharp margin easily recog¬ nized, but by growth at the periphery, and by an in¬ filtration of the tissue to an extent not recognizable by feel or unaided sight. So insinuatingly and so solitary Fig. 2 —Section of tissue from a ca^e of carcinoma of the, mammary gland, a, cancer tissue from apparent margin of tumor ; b, fatty tissue throughout entire drawing ; c, dilated capillaries containing excess of corpuscles; d, an isolated group of cancer epithelium. in their arrangement, do these epithelia sometimes travel in the lymph spaces that even a microscopical examination of the tissue beyond the area of excision,