It is, however, especially characteristic of the ovarian sarcomata, and is a point of diagnostic importance.
Other sarcomata arise from the periosteum, and usually originate from one side of the bone, although occasionally they entirely surround the bone.
The carcinomata spring from the epithelial type of tissue while the sarcomata emanate from the connective tissue type.
Ovarian sarcomata are usually of median size, though they may attain enormous proportions and fill the abdominal cavity.
Other observers state that ovarian sarcomata are usually bilateral.
The author called the disease sarcomata pigmentosum diffusum multiplex.
