Case of tumour originated in the soft palate, and protruding into the isthmus of the fauces, removed by operation / by Kelburne King, M.D.

  • King, Murdoch Kelburne, 1823-1886.
Date:
1870
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Credit: Case of tumour originated in the soft palate, and protruding into the isthmus of the fauces, removed by operation / by Kelburne King, M.D. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    On the 16th of September last, Charles Everett, aged twenty-eight years, consulted me regarding a tumour of the throat, of which he gave me the following history :— About three months before he first experienced a difficulty in swallowing, arising from a swelling in the roof of his mouth. This had not previously attracted his attention, but he admitted that it was of considerable size when he first observed it. From this time it increased continually, and he experienced great inconvenience in swallowing, and in respiration, especially during the night; his voice also was much afiected, rendering it difiicult to understand what he said. On examination, a laige tumour was found to occupy the whole left side of the soft palate, pushing the uvula over to the opposite side and almost out of sight. It nearly filled up the whole isthmus of the fauces. It extended downwards along the left side, filling up the hollow between the pillars of the fauces as far as the eye could follow it in the direction of the palato pharyngeal fold. The tonsil was seen stretched over its lower portion. It was about the size of an apple, and was of a globular form. On examination with the finger, its consistence was found to be hard, firm, and unyielding. It occupied the whole thickness of the left side of the soft palate, and could be felt terminating in a free, somewhat roughened margin behind the posterior nares, but it had no special attachment to the posterior edge of the hard palate, and could be completely iso- lated from the nasal cavity. The finger could be readily passed round the projecting part of the