The principles of surgery . Fig. 62. Fig. 60. Fatty tumor, removed from a cyst under the tongue. Cholesteatoma. It was as large as anorange. Fig. 61. Structure of a fatly tumor removed from the back. Lipoma, a, Isolated cells showingcrystalline nucleus of margaric acid.—Bennett. less; the integument, if not hypertrophied, is pale, slack, and freelymovable on the tumor; and this, too, is loose upon the parts beneath,at least in the first instance. When the growth has been of long dura-tion, and attained to great size, both skin and tumor become more fixed;the former being stretched over, and pa
The principles of surgery . Fig. 62. Fig. 60. Fatty tumor, removed from a cyst under the tongue. Cholesteatoma. It was as large as anorange. Fig. 61. Structure of a fatly tumor removed from the back. Lipoma, a, Isolated cells showingcrystalline nucleus of margaric acid.—Bennett. less; the integument, if not hypertrophied, is pale, slack, and freelymovable on the tumor; and this, too, is loose upon the parts beneath,at least in the first instance. When the growth has been of long dura-tion, and attained to great size, both skin and tumor become more fixed;the former being stretched over, and partly incorporated with, the bulkymass; and the latter having sent forth its lobules deeply, into the inter-muscular spaces. Growth is gradual and steady; more rapid than thatof any other simple tumor, yet slower than that of any malignant swell-ing for which it is likely to be mistaken. The most common sites arethe thighs, shoulders, neck, back, abdominal parietcs, and labia the tumor is of a pedunculate
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