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Identifier: cyclopdiaofobs11gran (find matches)
Title: Cyclopædia of obstetrics and gynecology
Year: 1887 (1880s)
Authors: Grandin, Egbert H. (Egbert Henry), b. 1855, ed Bandl, Ludwig Billroth, Theodor, 1829-1894 Börner, Ernst, 1843-1914 Breisky, A Charpentier, Arthur Louis Alphonse, 1836-1899 Chrobak, Rudolf Gusserow, A Hegar, A. (Alfred), 1830-1914 Kaltenbach, Rudolph, 1842-1896 Müller, Peter, 1836-1922 Olshausen, Robert Michaelis von, 1836-1915 Winckel, F Zweifel, Paul
Subjects: Obstetrics Women Gynecology Obstetrics
Publisher: New York, W. Wood & Company
Contributing Library: Columbia University Libraries
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rus; h, openings of vagina in_bladder; i, both kidneys; fc,openings of both ureters into the bladder. which are continuous with the normal or rudimentary tubes. At theirlower extremities they sometimes end in distinctly separable vaginae,which open into the bladder, into the cloaca, or, more rarely, into therectum. But more frequently the uteri end directly, without vaginge, inthese cavities. The uteri may be solid, and then they belong rather tothe uterus rudimentarius bipartitus than here, but in most cases they arehollow. The two halves are usually widely separated, aud between them lie 236 DEVELOPMENTAL ANOMALIES OF THE UTERUS. uraclius, bladder, and rectum. Often there is a distinct recto-vesical liga-ment. Until recently this anomaly has not been seen in adults; and Mayr-hofer yet believes that it only occurs as ))art of a series of malformationswhich render life impossible. But we now know that some cases whichwere formerly supposed to be examples of the higher grades of uterus
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Fig. 37.—So-called Uterus BicoRNis. (After Eisenmann.t a, Double introitus and hymen; b,ostium urethra?; c, clitoris; d, urethra; e, e, vaginae;/,/, orifieia uteri; g, g, cervices of uteri; h, h,bodies and coruua of uteri; i, i, ovaries; fc, fc, oviducts; I, I, round ligaments; m, m, broad ligaments. bicornis really belong here. If the drawings are correct, it is a questionwhebher the repeatedly reproduced cases of Cassan and of Eisenmann arenot really cases of double uterus. And a number of post-mortem casesand specimens have now been shown to be cases of uterus didelphys. 0.L. Heppners case is usually classed the first of these. Instead of the vagina there was a quadrangular, thick, solid, musculo-fibrous plate, 1.9 inch broad, and about .5 inch thick, which was continu-ous at its upper border with the rounded uterine columns. These were THE DOUBLE UTERTIS. 287 solid, 2.6 inches long, running upwards and backwards, and forming attheir upper extremities club-shaped protrusions half

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