. Transactions of the Southern Surgical and Gynecological Association . w days the latter becamesomewhat tender and sore. There was at no time any effusioninto the tunica vaginalis. Three weeks in bed with restsufficed to cause the induration in the cord to graduallydisappear. Although more than a year has passed since theattack, and the patient has continued wearing the truss,there has been no recurrence. In each of these cases I have recently examined the sper-matic cord and found it normal. While we are led to believe,and in the majority of cases it doubtless is true, that throm-bosis of a
. Transactions of the Southern Surgical and Gynecological Association . w days the latter becamesomewhat tender and sore. There was at no time any effusioninto the tunica vaginalis. Three weeks in bed with restsufficed to cause the induration in the cord to graduallydisappear. Although more than a year has passed since theattack, and the patient has continued wearing the truss,there has been no recurrence. In each of these cases I have recently examined the sper-matic cord and found it normal. While we are led to believe,and in the majority of cases it doubtless is true, that throm-bosis of a vein recovers with the formation of a fibrous cordwhich remains in these cases, it is probable that by a processof liquefaction and absorption of the thrombus an entirerestitution, even to the caliber of the veins, took place. Innone of these cases was there any justification for operation,wherefore the clinical diagnosis of thrombosis of the sper-matic vein might be questioned. In each of them an infectiveprocess could be positively excluded, and except in the third. Fig. 1.—Simple hydrocele of cord.
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