Volume 4

The Edinburgh stereoscopic atlas of obstetrics / edited by G.F. Barbour Simpson and Edward Burnet ; with a preface by Sir J. Halliday Croom.

  • Burnet Edward.
Date:
1908-1909
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Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    Congenital malformations of the reproductive system in the female are met with from time to time, and result from arrest in development. The commonest malformation arises from imperfect fusion of the lower ends of the two Mullerian ducts, and is seen in the Bicornuate Uterus (Uterus Bicornis, Uterus Didelphys). The Uterus is sometimes double in all its extent, opening into the Vagina by two separate orifices. In this specimen the separation affects only the body of the Uterus, the two halves of which communicate with the Vagina through a common Cervix. Each Cornu is continuous with its own Fallopian Tube. . In some cases one horn develops completely, while the other horn remains rudimentary and shut off from any communication with the genital tract (By-horn Uterus). When pregnancy occurs in such a by-horn it simulates a Tubal gestation. Observation of the relation of the Bound Ligament with the gestation sac clears up the case, a gestation sac external to the insertion of the Bound Ligament being Tubal, one internal to the point of insertion being Cornual. 1. Bight Horn of Uterus. 2. Left Horn of Uterus. 3. Vagina.