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Identifier: operativegynecol9802kell (find matches)
Title: Operative gynecology
Year: 1898 (1890s)
Authors: Kelly, Howard A. (Howard Atwood), 1858-1943
Subjects: Genital Diseases, Female Generative organs, Female
Publisher: New York, D. Appleton and Company
Contributing Library: Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine
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Fio. 404—Ovarian Cyst showing Natural Perforation AND a TkNACIOUS PSEUDOMUCINOUS SECRETION POURINGOUT INTO THE ABDOMINAL CaVITY. Dec. 23, ISUo. NAT-URAL Size.
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Fig. 405.—Lakoh Multiloodlak Ovarian Cyst in a Negeess.Aspiration. Death without operatiou. Autopsy. DIAGNOSIS. 253 tinue to grow and an ascites forms, and ultimately the patient dies of ex-haustion. After a time the walls of the ruptured cyst retract, forming dense cicatricialbands and exposing and everting any secondary cysts contained within the cavity. A rare form of rupture is a little pinched-out hole from which the toughpseudo-mucinous fluid slowly oozes out in a tenacious rope. In one of my cases the hole was plugged from within hy a little flaccid cystseen hanging from the outer surface of the tumor. Clinical Course.—The tendency of all ovarian tumors is to grow larger,filling first the posterior quadrant of the pelvis of the side from which theyspring, then filling the whole pelvis, and finally rising up into the abdomenand gradually encroaching upon its cavity in a direction from below upward. Tumors weighing over fifty pounds are rare, but well-authenticated cases arer

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