The growth had all the clinical history of an osteosarcoma of the tibia, and was amputated and photographed after removal.

In another case, in a white male of thirty, the same author successfully performed a hip-amputation for a large sarcoma of the left femur.

The removed member was sent entire to the Army Medical Museum at Washington.
The fatality and incurability of malignant growths has done much to stimulate daring and marvelous operations in surgery.

The utter hopelessness of the case justifies almost any means of relief, and many of the visceral operations, resections of functional organs, and extraordinary amputations that were never dreamed of in the early history of medicine are to-day not only feasible and justifiable, but even peremptorily demanded.
Varicose veins sometimes become so enlarged and distorted as to simulate the appearance of one varicose tumor.

Adams describes a curious case of congenital dilatation of the arteries and veins in the right lower limb, accompanied by an anastomosis with the interior of the os calcis.