On solitary fibromyxomata of peripheral nervetrunks, with a description of a case of cystic fibromyxoma of the median nerve

✍ Scribed by Eric A. Linell

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1922
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 435 KB
• Volume: 10
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0007-1323
• DOI: 10.1002/bjs.1800103805

✦ Synopsis

M.

G., a woman, age 42, came to the out-patient department of the Ancoats Hospital in October, 1921, complaining of a lump in the right arm, which she had noticed growing gradually for four years, and more rapidly during the last month. When first noticed she stated it was the size of a hazel-nut.

Symptoms.-Patient's only complaint was that occasionally she had attacks of shooting pain from the site of the tumour down into the middle finger. She suffered no disability whatever, and had noticed no impairment either of muscular power or of sensation in the limb.

Examination.-This revealed a well-defined, painless, fusiform swelling on the antero-internal aspect of the upper arm slightly above the internal condyle of the humerus. The tumour was the size of a pigeon's egg, freely movable laterally, but not in the long PIG. lO'l.-Nnked-eye appearance of cyst alter removal.