CHAPTER XIV 



VARIOUS HUMAN SARCOMAS 



IN 1894 I examined histologically for Dr. Handfield-Jones a large 

 myxosarcoma 1 of the uterus, which had been removed with its 

 annexes. The tumour was soft and elastic, and was not necrosed in 

 any part. The connective-tissue basis of the tumour consisted of 

 cells and bloodvessels. The former were ramified and anastomosed 

 quite like those of granulation tissue. 



Among the connective-tissue cells were very numerous other 

 elements which differed from the tissue - cells in their physical 



FIG. 45. CELL AND CELL-INCLUSIONS. (From a periosteal sarcoma.) 

 Three reticular bodies are contained in the cytoplasm. 



characters and other features, and which I have described as 

 follows : 



' Intracellular bodies, some small and dense, with or without 

 nucleus, others larger and reticulated, all alike very highly refracting, 



1 A myxosarcoma is a sarcoma in which the cells assume the branched form 

 characteristic of granulation-tissue cells, the presence of abundant semifluid inter- 

 cellular substance enabling the offshoots that connect the cells together to be well 

 seen. 



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