A case of fibrosarcoma of the orbit with multiple secondary deposits

✍ Scribed by Cecil P. G. Wakeley

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1924
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 349 KB
• Volume: 12
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0007-1323
• DOI: 10.1002/bjs.1800124623

✦ Synopsis

J?IUROSARCOJIATA arc tumours of uniisual interest from the fact that it is so difficult to correlate the c~linic~al (.ourse with the histological findings. At times a tumour with definite histological appearances of malignancy behaves like an innocent tumour, arid its removal effects a permanent cure. I n other cases tirrriours with an ideiitical histological picture grow and metastasize with grcat rapidity. The following rase is of interest because of the large nnniber o f secwridary deposits which were fomid.

George P., age BE. a waiter i i i an hotel, first noticed some p i n in his left eye during Fehriiary, 1923, and also fourid that his sight was very poor i n