Selected cases of sarcoma of bone affecting the lower extremities / by Frederic S. Dennis.

  • Dennis, Frederic S. (Frederic Shepard), 1850-1934.
Date:
[1888]
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Credit: Selected cases of sarcoma of bone affecting the lower extremities / by Frederic S. Dennis. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    The appalling impressions which I have received from a large clinical experience with this dreadful malady lead me to regard this neoplasm as one to which the thoughtful attention of the surgeon should be assiduously directed. - Entertaining these views, as I do, not from hear- say, nor from book-knowledge, nor from a narra- tion of recorded cases by others, but from actual clinical experience with the disease, I know of no subject to which I could invite attention that con- cerns us more than this. In studying the subject there have arisen a number of important questions which I shall introduce, with a view to elicit discussion upon these points. It is in this way, by accumulative investigation, and by comparison, that the surgical profession can acquire knowledge upon such diseases. The malignancy, the etiology, the clinical history, the prognosis, the diagnosis, and the treatment, besides other important subjects in regard to tumors, can only be understood by an exhaustive study of a number of individual cases. The consideration of a typical case of sar- coma of bone, for example, affords no reliable knowl- edge which could be applied to another case of sarcoma of bone. This variety of malignant tumor of bone has a wide range of difference, and it is only by comparison that we can arrive at any satis- factory knowledge. Before taking up a study of individual cases, a few remarks upon the general subject of sarcoma in relation to its definition, its origin, its situation, its etiology and its classification seem pertinent.