Case of three remarkable tumours extirpated from the nose : communicated in a letter to David Hosack / by P.S. Townsend.

  • Townsend, Peter S. (Peter Solomon), 1796-1849.
Date:
1825
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Credit: Case of three remarkable tumours extirpated from the nose : communicated in a letter to David Hosack / by P.S. Townsend. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    lip, upon which it rested, interfering very much with drinking and eating, and also with articulation. This* the largest of the three, was about two inches in breadth, and, measuring from the anterior to the pos- terior surface, an inch and a half in diameter: the lowest part of it incurvated over the nostrils. The shape was spherical, as also that of the two lateral tumours, which were more globate, and about one inch in diameter. Each lateral tumour was seated upon the external surface of the ala of the nose, leaving the rim of the inferior part of the ala in its natural state, but closely adhering to the cartilage above this by a broad base nearly co-extensive with the diameters of the tumours. The middle lobe, however, involved the whole of the tip of the nose, had a larger base and attachment than the lateral lobes, and was more firm- ly adherent than they to the cartilages upon which it was situated. The middle tumour was also entirely separated on each side from the lateral tumours by a deep fissure, leaving each tumour upon a distinct base. These fissures had been made deeper, he said, by con- stantly handling and wiping out the clammy matter secreted between the tumours. The teguments upon the diseased part were of the same flushed co- lour and rough appearance as upon the rest of the face. The remarkable tumours upon the nose of this patient had been familiarly known for years through-