Benign osteosarcoma affecting the hands and feet - UCD Digital Library

Benign osteosarcoma affecting the hands and feet

Abstract: Watercolour medical illustration depicting benign osteosarcoma. It has the alternative reference number 1392, 6.c and P10 on the front. The Richmond Hospital Museum reference is C.a.18. The entry for this in P263/1 pg. 19 reads 'Benign osteosarcoma of the phalanges of the foot'. The artist's name is in the bottom right corner 'J. Connolly' and in the left corner 'Case of Pat.k McArdle aet. 15'. The typescript note on the back begins 'Benign Osteosarcoma affecting the Hands and Feet'.

In collection  Richmond Hospital Medical Illustrations

Resource description

Origin information
Dublin, Ireland
Date created:
Type of Resource
still image
text
Physical description
1 art original : col.
33 x 35 cm
Scope and content
The full typescript note on the back reads 'Benign Osteosarcoma affecting the Hands and Feet – Dr Hutton produced a cast and drawings of a very well-marked instance of a case of the disease termed Benign Osteosarcoma. The subject of the present, which is an extreme case, is a boy aged seven or eight years; it occupied both the hands and feet; the skin of the affected parts was discoloured; there were openings formed by ulceration at the prominent points; the weight of the left hand was very considerable; the bones of the fore-arm and hand, down to the phalanges, were engaged in the disease; the fingers were enlarged in every direction, and curved, so as to be useless; in some of the phalanges a slight mobility still remained; the disease in the foot extended to the fibula; the disease had probably commenced in the medullary structure. A section of this morbid structure in an early stage, shews a texture like cartilage, or fibro-cartilage, as described by Mr Adams, in a case operated on by Dr Cusack; at a later period it is pervaded by a vascular membrane, and at last there remains of the bone only a thin osseous shell, coating the tumour, with some plates and spiculae of bone scattered through it; the bulk of the tumour is sometimes cartilaginous, sometimes like concrete albumen. 30th March, 1844.' This illustration relates to P263/475, portfolio 8.1.
Numbering/sequence
Original reference number: 1392.
Languages
English  
Genre
Watercolors   linked data (gmgpc)   Medical illustrations   linked data (gmgpc)
Subject
Bone Neoplasms
Osteosarcoma
Location
https://doi.org/10.7925/drs1.ucdlib_280476
Location
University College Dublin. UCD Archives . P263/476
Suggested credit
"Benign osteosarcoma affecting the hands and feet," held by UCD Archives. © Public domain. Digital content by University College Dublin, published by UCD Library, University College Dublin <https://digital.ucd.ie/view/ucdlib:280476>
Record source
Descriptions created by staff of UCD Library, University College Dublin based on a finding aid and databases provided by UCD Archives. — Metadata creation date: 2022-06-02

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