Case of tubarian gestation, with rupture of the cyst, containing the embryo, and fatal hemorrhage into the peritoneum / [Robert Mortimer Glover].

  • Glover, Robert Mortimer, 1816-1859
Date:
1842]
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Credit: Case of tubarian gestation, with rupture of the cyst, containing the embryo, and fatal hemorrhage into the peritoneum / [Robert Mortimer Glover]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    of the sac in the present case, and the absence of marked symp¬ toms of pregnancy, together with the recent formation of the decidua and state of the uterus, I should not be inclined to con¬ sider the pregnancy as more advanced than three weeks. All the symptoms of such cases, with confirmation of the great effu¬ sion of blood that occurs in them, will be found described in these authors, also by Capuron,1 and doubtless by other writers. It is not my intention to enter into the literature of the subject; but I should be inclined to conjecture that parallel cases are more frequent than is supposed. A practitioner in this neigh¬ bourhood described to me a case of the kind which occurred to him four years ago. In his case also the foetus had apparently attained the third or fourth month of gestation. Explanation of the Plate. The anterior view of the uterus is represented ; a transverse section is made of the left portion, besides the general section, and a portion of uterus reflected and reversed, in order to show the decidua as described. 1. Is the sac; 2. The left Fallopian tube ; 3. The recent cicatrix on the left ovary ; 4. The hydatid ; 5. The cell in the neck of the uterus.—The appearances on section of the right ovary are sufficiently clear. 1 Cours Theorique et Pratique des Accouchements, t. 2, p. 678, second edition. BALFOUR AND JACK, PRINTERS.