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Title: The diagnosis of diseases of women
Year: 1905 (1900s)
Authors: Findley Palmer. (from old catalog)
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Publisher: Philadelphia and New York, Lea brothers & co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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large amount; therefore, teeth are frequently found, and their occurrence is in contrast with their rarity in the testicle. The origin of teeth is to be explained by the united presence of ectoderm and mesoderm in these tumors. Anatomical Diagnosis. A dermoid cyst may occupy part or all of the ovary, and as many as five distinct and separate dermoids have been found in the same ovary. They are commonly intra-peritoneal and are rarely found between the layers of the broad DIAGNOSIS OF DISEASES OF THE OVARY 445 ligament. Both skin and mucous membrane are found in the cysts.The amount of skin found varies greatly. It may completely linea large cyst or may be confined to a single daughter cyst. Foreign structures found in dermoids are hair, teeth, nails, horns,sebaceous and sudoriferous glands, mammae, bone, unstriped musclefibre, brain and nerve tissue. The hair may be rolled into a ball and lie free in the cyst cavity,or tufts of hair may spring from the cyst wall. The hair has been Fig. 182
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Multilocular dermoid cyst. known to be five feet in length (Munde). The color varies from blond to black, and does not usually correspond to the color of the patients hair. It is known to turn gray in old age, and at this time the cyst may become bald. The teeth may be embedded in bone resembling a rudimentary jaw or in the fibrous wall of the cyst. More than 400 teeth have been found in a single dermoid cyst of the ovary. They represent teeth of every description and develop on the same plan as teeth in the normal situation. They are not scattered irregularly through 446 SPECIAL DIAGNOSIS the cyst unless present in large numbers, but are grouped together.Nails and horns project from the surface of the cyst. Sebaceousand sweat-glands raay be numerous, and may form retention cysts.Bone in shapeless masses or in plates is occasionally found. Nervematter has been detected in dermoid cysts. Fig. 183

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