Hypernephroma / by F.G. Bushnell.

  • Bushnell, F.G.
Date:
[between 1900 and 1909]
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    brane, no true peripheral growth of epithelial cells. Again, hypere*»ia may he benign, but is usually malignant. While it grows rapidly, recurs locally after removal, and disseminates by the blood stream, not by lymph canals, it is, as a rule, not so maligTiant as carcinomata or sarcomata. The malignant hypernephroma (whether of the cortex or medulla) bears the same relation to the benign or latent form as teratoma to der- moid, or carcinoma to cystadenoma. They resemble “ general thyroid malignancy ” in their power of mimicry of the adrenal structure in secondary deposits (14). In short, they are in- structive examples of the links in structure that unite simple and malignant growths, and which I have pointed out before It is hoped that further work may be done on the biochemi- cal and physical changes producing and accompanying this aberrant form of growth. P.S.—I take this opportunity of expressing my thanks to' Mr. A. H. Buck, F.R.O.S., for permission to publish the case, and to Mr. G. Bate, M.B., F.R.C.S., Senior House Surgeon, for the beautiful microphotographs, and to Mr. Henry Morris and Mr. Bland Sutton for their kind references. BIBLIOGRAPHY. 1. Lubarsch. Hektoen and Riesman, Text-Book of Pathology, vol. ii, p. 984. 2. Quart. Jour. Micros. Sci., xxiv, xxv. 3. Hektoen and Riesman, Text-Book of Pathology, p. 985. 4. Ihid., p. 914. 5. G©ilstonian Lectures on Suprarenal Bodies, A. D. Rolleston. Brit. Med. Jour., Jan. 1, 1895. 6. Human Histology, Sobotta, p. 193. 7. Jour, of Amer. Med. Assoc., July, Dec., 1898. 8. Hunterian Lectures on Development and Transition of Testis, 1887 ; also. Path. Soc. Trans., vol. xlix. ' 9. Henry Morris, Surgical Diseases of Kidney and Ureter, vol. ii, p. 15, et seq. 10. Ihid. 11. Ziegler’s Beitrage ix, 523, 1891. 12. Virchow’s Archiv., xcii, ii, 1883. , 13. Hektoen and Riesman, Text-Book of Pathology, p. 986. Mallory and Southard, Hypernephroma by Thorndike and Cunningham, Bo^on Med. and Surg. Jour., vol. cxlix, No. 23, pp. 611-616, Dec., 1903. Boyd an McFarland, Amer. Jour. Med. Sci., p. 195, June, 1902. 14. Bland Sutton, Tumors Innocent and Malignant. j i 15. Bushnell, Structural Links in Malignant Growths, Brit. Med. Jour., p .30, 1904.