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Title: Wisconsin medical recorder
Year: 1905 (1900s)
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Subjects: Medicine
Publisher: Janesville : Hall & Thorne
Contributing Library: The College of Physicians of Philadelphia Historical Medical Library
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FIGURE III Fig. 3.—Shows manner of ligating the dilated vessels. The vessels are ligatedat two points and a wedge-shaped portion is removed. I 88 WISCONSIN MEDICAL RECORDER
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FIGURE IV Fig. 4.—A wedge-shaped segment of the vessels between the ligatures is excised.Fig. 4 shows scissors passed beneath the vessels. WISCONSIN MEDICAL EECOBDEB 89 which are not dilated, and in this waythe nutritional changes which occur inthe testicle in cases of varicocele, whichare marked, are overcome. Very oftenwe will see a well marked varicocelewhere the testicle is of a normal sizeand consistance. Many medical mentake it that such a case does not requiretreatment, particularly operative treat-ment, but very often such cases shouldbe operated upon owing to the mentaleffect of the abnormality upon the pa-tient. The dilated vessels may be obliterat-ed by the operation of subcutaneousligation. This is performed either witha special needle or an ordinary surgicalneedle, armed with silk or catgut. Theoperator aims to pass a needle throughthe scrotum and back again, carryingin so doing a ligature around the di-lated vessels. The ligature is thentied and the knot allowed to sin

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