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Title: The diseases of women : a handbook for students and practitioners
Year: 1897 (1890s)
Authors: Bland-Sutton, John, Sir, 1855-1936 Giles, Arthur E. (Arthur Edward), 1864-
Subjects: Women Generative organs, Female Genital Diseases, Female
Publisher: London : Rebman Philadelphia : W.B. Saunders
Contributing Library: Yale University, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Open Knowledge Commons and Yale University, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library

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but theyare not accessory ovaries. Many of them are partiallydetached tubes of the parovarium, stalked corpora fibrosa,or small myomata of the ovarian ligament. So far as the facts at present stand, a supernumeraryovary, so separated from the main gland as to form a distinctovary, has yet to be described by a competent observer. Displacements.—Under this heading it will be neces- 252 DISEASES OF WOMEN. sary to consider three conditions: Undescended Ovary;Hernia of the Ovary; Prolapse of the Ovary. (a) Undescended Ovary.—In the embryo the ovaries,like the testicles, are in close relation with the kidneys:gradually they migrate to the pelvis, and at birth they lieon the psoas magnus muscle in close relation with the in-ternal abdominal ring (Fig. 84). Soon after birth the ovariesoccupy positions in the true pelvis near its brim until dis-turbed by accident or pregnancy. In very rare instances an ovary remains in the neighbor-hood of the kidney or in some position between the kidney
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Fig. 84.—Pelvic organs of a foetus at birth. and the brim of the true pelvis. In such a case it retainsthe infantile shape. In a certain proportion of cases of un-descended testis on the right side the caecum fails to de-scend to its normal position in the right iliac fossa. Reten-tion of the right ovary in the loin is associated with asimilar disposition of the caecum. (b) Hernia of the Ovary.—An ovary may occupy ahernial sac either alone or in company with the Fallopiantube, omentum, intestine, etc.; most frequently it occupies DISEASES OF THE OVARIES. 253 a sac in the inguinal region, less frequently in the femoral.It has been found herniated through the obturator foramen. Following the method adopted with other varieties ofhernia, when the ovary alone occupies a hernial sac it maybe termed an oophorocele; when accompanied by the tube,a salpuigo-oophoroccle ; hernia of the tube alone would be asalpingocele. Oophoroceles may occur in the early months of infancy,but congenital he

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