08 January 2013

Enchondroma of the scapula (1863)


Enchondromas are benign tumors of cartilagenous tissue.  

Image cropped (and color-adjusted from sepia to black-and-white) from the original photo by James Wallace Black in the archives of Princeton University, via Sutured Infection.

3 comments:

  1. Well, mostly benign. They can be painful, cause pathogenic fractures, and although rare, can become cancerous. Even more rarely, they can be metastatic pulmonary lesions.

    I expect your fellow is not terribly comfortable, there.

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  2. Well, thanks a lot. Now I have 146 more pages of browsing to do.

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