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Report of a Case

RALPH F. CARLSON, M.D.; W. E. ADAMS, M.D.

AMA Arch Surg. 1952;64(6):777-782.

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HEMANGIOMAS occur in practically all visceral and somatic elements of the body and numerically are common tumors,¹ but when they occur in skeletal muscles, they are uncommon tumors, as evidenced by Watson and McCarthy's report of only 10 cases among 1,308 hemangiomas studied.² Shallow and co-workers collected 335 cases of hemangioma of skeletal muscles from the world literature up to 1944.³ Of these, 39 involved the muscles of the thoracic wall; most of these tumors were small and involved only one muscle.

Elkin and Cooper reported 19 cases of large hemangiomas, 3 of which involved various muscles of the chest wall.⁴ Two of these tumors were completely excised; the third, only partially because of its extent.

Dumbbell tumors of the mediastinum and spinal cord make up a small percentage of all spinal-cord tumors. The great majority of these have their origin in nerve tissue. Heuer studied 64 dumbbell tumors, 43% of which . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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CHICAGO

From the Department of Surgery of the University of Chicago.

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