The pathology and surgical treatment of tumors . our days before the operation. Salpingo-oophorectomy.—The removal of the uterine appendages isindicated in the operative treatment of myofibroma of the uterus inwhich enucleation is impossible and the tumor or tumors have not pro-duced serious pressure-symptoms. Arrest of menstruation, effected bythe removal of the uterine adnexa, exerts the same effect on uterinemyofibroma as the natural menopause. The tumors, as a rule, not onlycease to grow, but also arc materially reduced in size by fatty degene-ration and shrinkage. Salpingo-oophorectomy yi
The pathology and surgical treatment of tumors . our days before the operation. Salpingo-oophorectomy.—The removal of the uterine appendages isindicated in the operative treatment of myofibroma of the uterus inwhich enucleation is impossible and the tumor or tumors have not pro-duced serious pressure-symptoms. Arrest of menstruation, effected bythe removal of the uterine adnexa, exerts the same effect on uterinemyofibroma as the natural menopause. The tumors, as a rule, not onlycease to grow, but also arc materially reduced in size by fatty degene-ration and shrinkage. Salpingo-oophorectomy yields the best results insoft multiple myomata occurring in women from twenty to thirty-fiveyears of age. The danger attending this operation in well-selected very small. The first operation of this kind for uterine myoma was MYOMA. 503 performed in 1876 by Trenholme. Tait and Hegar prefer it to otheroperations in the majority of cases. If the uterus is movable and thetumors are not large, the uterine appendages can be removed through. Fig. 355.—Hegars forceps for cauterizing the pedicle in castration : a, upper surface : b, under surface with ivory plate. a two-inch median incision. If the ovaries are imbedded in inflamma-tory adhesions, it is often exceedingly difficult to find and isolate such circumstances it is advisable to enlarge the incision to the
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