Case of sarcoma of the choroid : characterised by its long duration and by the unusually small size of the primary growth / by A. Maitland Ramsay.

  • Ramsay, A. Maitland (Andrew Maitland), 1859-1946.
Date:
1892
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Credit: Case of sarcoma of the choroid : characterised by its long duration and by the unusually small size of the primary growth / by A. Maitland Ramsay. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    completely filled the cavity of the right orbit. The eyeball itself was seen to be very much atrophied, and occupied a position near the middle of the pro- jecting mass. The cornea was small and flattened, and was surrounded by about a quarter of an inch of shrunken and wrinkled sclerotic, which showed deep indentations over the insertions of the recti muscles, and very gradually merged into the tumour tissue. The. surface of the cornea was traversed by numerous small blood-vessels. The growth was of a lobulated character, and appeared most pro- minently at the upper and outer aspect of the orbit. The lobules were almost black in colour, while the intervening portions were somewhat livid. Below and to the outside lax'ge varicose blood-vessels were seen. On palpation the tumour was firm and elastic, freely movable in the orbital cavity, and without tenderness on pressure. The eyelids were swollen and stretched, and completely covered the whole mass, except at the inner canthus, where a fold of hypertrophied conjunctiva projected. As a result of venous engorgement, they were of a dark livid colour. There was no enlargement of the pre- auricular or other lymphatic glands.