. A Reference handbook of the medical sciences : embracing the entire range of scientific and practical medicine and allied science. Fig. 43S5.—Right Unilateral Lacerationof Cervix. (Munde.). Fig. 4380.—Bilateral Laceration of Cervix. The two tenacula show the directionof approximation of the everted lips. (Munde.) are present. In other words, no general rules can safelybe formulated as to the necessity of an operation, eachindividual case demanding separate study ; but it maybe stated that a laceration, of whatever magnitude orshape, occurring in a uterus of normal depth and size,unaccompanie
. A Reference handbook of the medical sciences : embracing the entire range of scientific and practical medicine and allied science. Fig. 43S5.—Right Unilateral Lacerationof Cervix. (Munde.). Fig. 4380.—Bilateral Laceration of Cervix. The two tenacula show the directionof approximation of the everted lips. (Munde.) are present. In other words, no general rules can safelybe formulated as to the necessity of an operation, eachindividual case demanding separate study ; but it maybe stated that a laceration, of whatever magnitude orshape, occurring in a uterus of normal depth and size,unaccompanied by ectropion or endometrial inflamma-tion, is not responsible for the gynaecological symptomsthat may be present, nor would its repair cure them. (For fuller description of the symptoms of the secondarychanges—subinvolution, or endometritis—that may fol-low lacerated cervix, the reader is referred to the specialarticles on those subjects.) Pathology.—Lacerations of the cervix are single (), bilateral (Fig. 4386), stellate or multiple (). The usual form is bilateral; that is, on both rightand left aspects of the cervix. The two fissures are usu-ally of unequal
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