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Uterus and ovaries found in pelvis of a man during hernia repair; the patient was not told of the discovery and healed from the hernia operation.

Identifier: transact20sout (find matches)
Title: Transactions of the Southern Surgical and Gynecological Association
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: Southern Surgical and Gynecological Association (U.S.)
Subjects: General Surgery Gynecology
Publisher: (S.l.) : The Association
Contributing Library: The College of Physicians of Philadelphia Historical Medical Library
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ral end an infundibulum and fimbriatedextremity. The two glands were oval and slightly flattened,corresponded in size and appearance to normal ovaries,showed some slight scarring, and each presented severalsmall cyst-like elevations resembling Graafian follicles on thesurface of an adult ovary. There was no evidence of anexcretory duct leading directly from either of these bodies, andneither of them showed any structure resembling or >r.ing ;ni epididymis. The finger passed downward behind theuterus came in contact with a slight dilatation after the iof the cervix was reached, but as these manipulations we resimply made through the enlarged internal ring, the exactdetail of the structures, eleep in the pelvis, could not be out-line el. The accompanying illustration is from a pen-and-inksketch made by Professor Henry Winston Harper, M.D., ofAustin, Texas, who was present at the operation and towhom I am much indebted for his accurate portrayal ofconditions ;i~> seeD ;it the time.
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GEORGE BEN JOHNSTON 421 As there was no justification to mutilate this patient in anyway none of these organs were removed, so that I am unableto report on the histological structure of any of the tissues inquestion. Quite a number of gentlemen were present at theoperation, and all were very much impressed by the exactsimilarity in appearance of these organs with those of thenormal internal genitalia of a healthy woman. The operationsimply consisted in replacing these singular structures in theabdomen, closing up the sac of peritoneum, and then repair-ing the inguinal canal. The patients recovery was unevent-ful, there is now no evidence of hernia, and he is quite unawarethat his pelvic organs differ in any respect from those of awell-formed man. A case very similar to this one was reported by Dr. T. W.Webster at the meeting of the Chicago Gynecological Society,April 19, 1907. (Surg., Gynec. and Obst., October, 1907, p.484.) This case was as follows: The patient was a farmer, aged abo

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