Deciduoma malignum : (with a table of forty cases) / by Herbert R. Spencer.

  • Spencer, Herbert Ritchie.
Date:
1896
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    [Reprinted from The Quarterly Medical Journal, July, 1896.] DECIDUOMA MALIGNUM. (With a table of forty cases) BY HERBERT R. SPENCER, M.D., B.S.Lond. Professor of Obstetric Medicine in University College, London ; Obsietric Physician to University College Hospital. One of the most interesting diseases which have been observed in recent years is that now generally known by the name of decidu- oma malignum, though it has been described under many aliases, sarcoma deciduo-cellulare, sarcoma giganto-cellulare, carcinoma syncytiale, sarcoma of the chorionic villi, carcinoma of the chorionic villi, serotinal tumour, &c. The numerous and widely divergent names would seem to indicate either a want of uniformity in the disease or a departure from the ordinary appearances of malignant disease of the uterus, which renders it difficult to explain the origin of the growth, or even to definitely place it in one of the sarcomatous or carcinomatous groups. There are, however, certain features in the recorded cases which are exceedingly in- teresting and important, and I propose in the following short paper to give an analysis of all the cases published in sufficient detail which I have been able to collect. The total number of cases published up to the present time is, I believe, forty-one, excluding Ahlfeld’s tubal case, and cases such as those of Freeborn and Freund, to which no sufficient description is attached. The last published of these forty-one cases (Netzel’s) occurred in 1871