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Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine

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The author called the disease sarcomata pigmentosum diffusum multiplex.
The bones are a common seat of sarcomatous growths, the tumor in this instance being called osteosarcoma.

It may affect any bone, but rarely involves an articulation; at times it skips the joint and goes to the neighboring bone.
A case of nasal sarcoma is shown by Moore.

The tumor was located in the nasal septum, and caused a frightful deformity.

In this case pain was absent, the sense of smell was lost, and the sight of the right eye impaired.

Moore attempted to remove the tumor, but in consequence of some interference of respiration the patient died on the table.
Tiffany reports several interesting instances of sarcoma, one in a white female of nineteen following a contusion of tibia.


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