. Tumours, innocent and malignant; their clinical characters and appropriate treatment. tion of the great frequency of seedlingfibroids, and their multiplicity when compared with the num-ber of fibroids which attain a size sufficient to render themchnically appreciable, makes it undeniable that a large pro-portion of them remain latent. They may be compared tolatent buds in trees (knors) and plants, on the ground thatthey may remain quiescent for a number of years and thenassume active growth without any known cause. Latent fibroids have an important practical bearing; it is CEBVIOAL FIBB0ID8
. Tumours, innocent and malignant; their clinical characters and appropriate treatment. tion of the great frequency of seedlingfibroids, and their multiplicity when compared with the num-ber of fibroids which attain a size sufficient to render themchnically appreciable, makes it undeniable that a large pro-portion of them remain latent. They may be compared tolatent buds in trees (knors) and plants, on the ground thatthey may remain quiescent for a number of years and thenassume active growth without any known cause. Latent fibroids have an important practical bearing; it is CEBVIOAL FIBB0ID8 173 not an uncommon experience for an operator to dilate theuterine canal and abstract two or more submucous carefully the procedure may be conducted, and how-ever thoroughly the walls of the cavity may be examinedfor minute fibroids, no honest assurance can be given to thepatient that other fibroids will not grow. Fibroids of the neck of the uterus.—These tumours donot arise so frequently in the neck as in the body of the Fallopian tu^ ligament. Os Fig. 92.—An intracervical fibroid from a sterile married woman 40 years of fundus of the uterus reached the level of the umbilicus. Uterus, but they are fairly frequent, sometimes attain largeproportions, and possess peculiar features (Fig. 92). In the early stages of growth, cervical, like the commonforms of uterine, fibroids are more or less globular, but whenthey exceed this size they tend to become ovoid. Fibroidsmay grow from any part of the cervix; commonly they arisefrom its walls in such a way as to occupy the cervical canal(Fig. 93). These are known as intracervical or submucous 174 CONNECTIVE-TISSUE TUMOURS cervical fibroids. Less frequently they grow from the peripheryof the cervix and do not invade the canal, but burrow underthe peritoneum on the anterior or the posterior aspect of theuterus (Figs. 94 and 95). These are known as subserouscervical fibroids. The oval character o
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