Ovarian tumors : their pathology, diagnosis, and treatment, especially by ovariotomy / by E. Randolph Peaslee.

Date:
1873
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    OVARIAN TUMORS. CHAPTER I. NORMAL ANATOMY OF THE HUMAN OVARY AND OVIDUCT. SECTION I. A2J-AT0MY OF THE OVARY. The ovaries appear to the unaided eye to lie between tlie two folds of the broad ligament, and are attached to the uterus by the ovarian ligaments. The latter are flattened, cylindrical cords, two or three lines in diameter, and half an inch to even two inches long; and are composed of non- striated muscular fibre and connective tissue. They extend from the inner extremity of the ovary to the uterus; becom- ing continuous with the latter on its sides and near its angles, at a point just below and behind the oviducts, or Fallopian tubes. The right ligament is the longer in about three-quar- ters of the cases. The left ovary is generally found in close proximity to the rectum, and a part of its posterior surface connected with it. The ovaries are, therefore, normally situated high in the pelvis; their outer extremities almost touching the lateral walls of the pelvis, one inch to one and a half inch below the linea arcuata. During pregnancy, however, they are elevated into the abdomen in proportion as the size of the uterus increases, and at the close of gestation are below the centre of the uterus and in contact with its sides, and therefore not injured during parturition. Immediately after parturition they lie in the iliac