Fibroids and allied tumours (myoma and adenomyoma) - their pathology, clinical features and surgical treatment (1918) (14777495311)

Identifier: fibroidsalliedtu00lockuoft (find matches)

Title: Fibroids and allied tumours (myoma and adenomyoma) : their pathology, clinical features and surgical treatment

Year: 1918 (1910s)

Authors: Lockyer, Cuthbert Henry Jones, 1867-

Subjects: Generative organs, Female -- Tumors Gynecology, Operative

Publisher: London : Macmillan

Contributing Library: Gerstein - University of Toronto

Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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Fig. 155.—Showing a peculiar true cervical myoma. The ensheathing structure is composedpartly of cervix and partly of vagina. The remarkable position of the body of theuterus, like the retracted head ot a tortoise, is best understood by studying Figure 156.The demarcation between cervix and vagina is lost. (Removed by the late StanleyBoyd.) projecting outwards into the left broad ligament beneath the

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i\ I Fic. I 56.—Sliowinji^ a sai^ittal section of tlic cervix-myoma seen in Figure 155. The cervicaltissue has been elevated by the myoma, so that the body of the uterus appears to havesunk into the tumour. The specimen is, I believe, unique. 212 ^ CHAP. X CERVICAL MYOMA: POLYPI 213 level of the ureter, and it was necessary for me to dissect thatduct out of the angle between the large uniform myomaand the nodular out-growth, before the tumour could bedrawn up and the vagina amputated. The fornices were sofilled with the primary tumour that the projecting growthcould not be diagnosed. (2) Submucous Myoma of the Cervix.—The aboveremarks apply to interstitial growths ot the cervix. Thesetumours, when they attain any considerable size, are neces-sarily covered to a more or less extent by mucous membraneof the canal of the cervix, and in this sense are partiallysubmucous; but they differ entirely in their clinical featuresfrom true submucous myomas of the cervix. These latteracquire a

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