Primary sarcoma of the vagina in children / by D'Arcy Power.

  • Power, D'Arcy, 1855-1941.
Date:
[1896?]
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Credit: Primary sarcoma of the vagina in children / by D'Arcy Power. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    [Reprinted from St. Bartholomew's Hospital Eeports, Vol. XXXI.] 3 PRIMARY SARCOMA OF THE VAGI CHILDREN. BY D'AECY POWER. \&\ a<\ J\J^ 96 I propose to deal briefly in the following paper with^a small and rare subdivision of a large and common form of disease. Cancer of the generative organs in women is so frequent, and has been so thoroughly studied, that it would be difficult to say anything new about it until its cause is discovered; but cancer is not the only form of malignant disease to which these organs are liable. Sarcoma may and does affect them, and of sarcoma we know but little in this country. Dr. Gow contributed a useful paper upon the subject to the twenty-seventh volume of these Reports, but he dealt with it only as it occurs in the adult. I have recently had under my care a child who died from the effects of a primary sarcoma of the vagina. The case was an interesting one, and it led me to look at the literature of the subject, with the results which are here given. D. M., aged 2 years and 4 months, was admitted into the Victoria Hospital for Children under my care in May 1895 with a tense swelling in the vagina, causing retention of urine. Fourteen months previously she had an attack of measles, followed by a purulent vaginal discharge. The discharge lasted for some months and then ceased. It was noticed again at Christmas, when it was accompanied by severe bearing-down pains. The practitioner who attended her, observing that the vagina contained polypi, applied a curette to the mucous membrane upon more than one' occasion, a proceeding which, the mother says, was very beneficial to the child. The discharge however continued to be purulent. The patient appeared to be in her ordinary health, and was running about until May 20, when she began to strain and retch. She passed water on the morning of that day, but not afterwards. The retching continued throughout May 21, and