Oral surgery : a text book of diseases of the mouth intended chiefly for the use of students of dentistry / by Edmund W. Roughton.

  • Roughton, Edmund W.
Date:
[between 1890 and 1899?]
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Credit: Oral surgery : a text book of diseases of the mouth intended chiefly for the use of students of dentistry / by Edmund W. Roughton. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    plates and expand them in an irregular manner. On section the tumour is seen to be composed of a congeries of cysts varying in size from an inch in diameter down to minute cavities too small for the eye to perceive. The cysts usually contain a brownish mucoid fluid. They are sep- arated from one another by solid septa which are composed partly of the expanded and displaced bone and partly of a reddish-brown material which consists of the proper tumour substance which has not as yet become cystic. The method in which the cysts are formed is explained by a microscopic examination of a section of the solid portion of Fig. 26.—Epithelial Odontome of Mandible. The tumour consist of a congeries of cysts of varying size. {From the Museum of St. Mary's Hospital.) the tumour. It is then seen that the tumour consists of columns of epithelial cells separated from each other by con- nective tissue septa. The epithelial cells appear to be arranged in rounded alveoli, but the appearance is simply due to the long