Clinical report on ovarian and uterine diseases : with commentaries / by Robert Lee.

  • Robert Lee
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1853
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Credit: Clinical report on ovarian and uterine diseases : with commentaries / by Robert Lee. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    OVARIAN CYSTS AND TUMOURS. swat sts-^s»- J 'S-f» of - of the fT S—«« « nf ovarian cvsts and tumours. He has gi\ en the lo_nowin0 dSpiTf: fha compound serous cyst, which is often complicated with malignant disease of the ovaria:— Sis form we observe, on the interior surface of'.&B principal cyst, elevations more or less rounded, and ot va iou sizes prelecting into the inferior of the cavity, and covered by a membrane which is continuous with the lining °f ^.fmak^Slneision into these tumours, we find they also conS-of cysts of a secondary order, filled by a secre- tin, often serous, but almost as frequent y mucous It is not, however, merely by this secretion that these cysts are filled On look n- more minutely into them, we shall generally find that from one or more points on the ulterior ot these cast's there grows a cluster of other or tertiary cysts, upon wJh1h is reflected the lining membrane of the cystm wlnch thev are contained. Cysts of the secondary order not un- Rentl afford as complete specimens of a reflected serous membrane as either the pericardium or tunica vaginalis, the limn- membrane of the containing cyst corresponding to the reflected portion, as that covering the contained bunch of cysts does to the close portion « The proportion which the contained cysts bears to the cavity of the membrane reflected over them is extremely various. Sometimes the fluid, especially when.it is of a serous character, nearly fills the containing cyst whilsUhe bunch of cysts is of very considerable size. At othei times,
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