The genesis of carcinoma of the Fallopian tube in hyperplastic salpingitis, with report of a case and a table of twenty-one reported cases / by E. R. Le Count.

  • Le Count, H. R.
Date:
1901
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Credit: The genesis of carcinoma of the Fallopian tube in hyperplastic salpingitis, with report of a case and a table of twenty-one reported cases / by E. R. Le Count. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [57| gastro-intestinal tract, like those of the liver, are closely allied to the processes of tumor-development; or that there are certain interposed lesions which might be accepted as proof of.the continuity of processes having as their onset chronic inflammation, and, as their termination, tumor- growth. The analogy will be more complete with the dem- onstration of cases such as are hinted at by Birch-Hirsch- feld111 in the following proposition: “ It is probable, but not proven, that certain forms of primary carcinoma of the liver may have their origin in a further atypical development of such liver adenomata.” The fact that the hyperplasia of the gastro-intestinal mucosa has, as its end product, the evolution of malignant neoplasms, leaves no room for con- troversy such as has been noted with regard to multiple adenomata and nodular hyperplasia of the liver. In 42 cases gathered by Quenu and Landel of polypous hyperplasia of the colon, there were 20 in which a carcinoma of the colon was also present. In the series of Hauser,20 of carcinoma of the colon, five were associated with more or less extensive “ polyposis,” and in the stomach the same author reports one case in which the process was combined. (Case 25, p. 208.) One of the cases of benign tumor of the gastric mucosa which Sklifossowsky so positively ranks with the inflamma- tory hyperplasias, possessed at the same time a carcinoma, which was sufficiently interesting, on account of the early changes it showed, for Israel to report it under the title “ Ueber die ersten Anfiinge des Magenkrebs.” 21 Also, in the case of Petrow, of diffuse gastro-intestinal polypous hyper- plasia, death took place from invagination and spontaneous rupture at two places, where the growth had a similarity to adenocarcinoma. To substantiate the view that the polypous growth occurs first and that the production of tumor follows, the following citations will suffice: 19 L. c., p. 748. 20 Das Cylinderepitkel-carcinom ties Mageus nnd des Dickdarms, p. 261, 1890, Jena. 21 Berl. klin. Wcknschr., xxvii, p. 649, 1890.