Identifier: breastitsanomali00deav (find matches)
Title: The breast: its anomalies, its diseases, and their treatment
Year: 1917 (1910s)
Authors: Deaver, John B. (John Blair), 1855-1931
Subjects: Breast Breast X-rays Breast Diseases Breast Neoplasms Radiotherapy
Publisher: Philadelphia, P. Blakiston's Son & Co
Contributing Library: Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine
Digitizing Sponsor: Open Knowledge Commons

View Book Page: Book Viewer
About This Book: Catalog Entry
View All Images: All Images From Book
Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book.

Text Appearing Before Image:
ion is in all probability always followed bysubsequent diminution in size, with the termination of lactation, and sometimes longbefore lactation terminates when left to take its normal course. Its tissue can be sup-posed to undergo involution like that of the breast tissue itself, and to do so more rapidlythan the breast tissue, seeing that there can be no escape for its secretory products. Itbehaves like an unused breast. Here may be found one explanation of the fact that tum-ors of the breast in young women have been reported to have diminished in size,spontaneously. Morbid Anatomy.—To the naked eye the fibro-adenomas are usually easily recog-nizable. They form small or larger, solid or cystic tumors, completely surrounded by athin fibrous capsule. They are easily enucleated as a rule. Small tumors are usuallyrounded and smooth, larger ones nodular and cystic. Upon section the color is com-monly uniformly grayish pink, and slightly granular. Upon close inspection it may be Plate V
Text Appearing After Image:
Lactating adeno-fibroma simulating galactocele. Natural size. Deaver and McFarland. THE NON-INDIGENOUS TUMORS OF THE MAMMARY GLAND 449 possible to make out a delicately fasciculated groundwork, in which the granules areimbedded. The groundwork is the fibromatoid structure, the granules the epithelialtubules. In large tumors growth from numerous centers can be seen, and the tumor iscompounded by amalgamated nodules. The color is occasional!)^ varied through pecu-liar circumstances. Thus when the tubules dilate into cysts, or when extravasations ofblood, or necrotic change in the stroma are present, the color and texture may be modifiedaccordinglv.

Note About Images