Volume 2

Practical manual of diseases of women and uterine therapeutics : for students and practitioners / by H. Macnaughton-Jones.

  • Macnaughton-Jones, H. (Henry), 1844-1918.
Date:
1904
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Credit: Practical manual of diseases of women and uterine therapeutics : for students and practitioners / by H. Macnaughton-Jones. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    occui in the decidua serotina. These are, in some parts, arranged in cell masses without intervening tissue stroma; in other parts they are infiltrating and destroying adjacent tissues after the manner of sarcoma (Kg. 431). I he tumour contains neither connective tissue stroma nor blood- vessels of its own, though the irregular destruction of uterine tissue, caused by tongue-like processes which penetrate deeply into it, may m Jr tic. 431. Typical Masses op Chorion-epithelioma invading the Uterine Muscle. (Teacher.) The tumour tissue is dislinguished by its darker shade. The remains of uterme muscle among the tumour processes produces a sort of alveola! structure. The dark masses with many nuclei are the syncytium. Some of its detached masses simulate hypertrophied muscle fibres. give a roughly alveolar appearance (Fig. 431). As the tumour extends the centre degenerates, and in a growth of any size the bulk may consist of necrotic or degenerated tissue mixed with blood- clot. This point assumes practical importance when tissue removed by curetting is being examined for diagnostic purposes. It is probably not a rare occurrence in normal pregnancies for a portion of a villus or of chorionic epithelium to become detached,