Uterine fibroids complicated by pregnancy / by A. Vanderveer.

  • Vander Veer, A. (Albert), 1841-1929.
Date:
1896
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Credit: Uterine fibroids complicated by pregnancy / by A. Vanderveer. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    By A. VANDERVEER, M.D., OF ALBANY, N. Y.; PROFESSOR OF DIDACTIC, ABDOMINAL, AND CLINICAL SLTRGERY IN THE ALBANY MEDICAL COLLEGE. For many years careful obstetricians, consulting gynecologists, and general surgeons have witnessed the disappearance, in many instances, of uterine fibroids during the course of pregnancy ; absorption has taken place beyond a doubt. Again, many have been the cases in which suppuration has occurred, and patients have died as a result of septic condi- tions, the source of which at the present time could have been reached and treated with success. There are, perhaps, few conditions that give the family physician so much anxiety as those of fibroid, in which the patient becomes pregnant. On the other hand, there is perhaps no class of cases that gives the abdominal surgeon so much cause for thought as the cases of fibroid in which there has been a marked reluctance on the part of the patient to submit to an operation, and yet in which there is sudden enlarge- ment with suspicion of pregnancy, such as existed in the two cases I have to report. In these cases it was apparent to the patients and their friends that delay was not admissible, the chances for the patients’ recovery resting entirely upon an early operation. To-day we approach such conditions with a sense 1 Read at the Second Pan-American Medical Congress, held in the city of Mexico, November i6, 17, 18, and 19, 1896.