Geriatrics : the diseases of old age and their treatment, including physiological old age, home and institutional care, and medico-legal relations . Senile Contracted Kidney. (Pic andBonnamour.). Senile Bladder showing also hypertrophied prostate. (Pic andBonnamour.) SENILE DEGENERATION OF THE DUCTLESS GLANDS 127 and this condition may pass unnoticed unless discovered acci-dentally. There may be a local or annular constriction, moreoften the diameter of the canal is diminished throughout itslength. In a few cases the constriction is sufficient to interferewith the free discharge of the uterine
Geriatrics : the diseases of old age and their treatment, including physiological old age, home and institutional care, and medico-legal relations . Senile Contracted Kidney. (Pic andBonnamour.). Senile Bladder showing also hypertrophied prostate. (Pic andBonnamour.) SENILE DEGENERATION OF THE DUCTLESS GLANDS 127 and this condition may pass unnoticed unless discovered acci-dentally. There may be a local or annular constriction, moreoften the diameter of the canal is diminished throughout itslength. In a few cases the constriction is sufficient to interferewith the free discharge of the uterine and vaginal secretions,and in rare cases the occlusion is complete, preventing the dis-charge entirely. There is very little secretion from these partsin the aged, virtually none when the woman is in the recumbentposition. When walking a slight mucous discharge retention of this discharge will produce a catarrhal vaginitisand may cause a metritis; occasionally it becomes mucopurulentand may then lead to local septic infection. The treatmentdepends upon the extent of the atresia. Omitting the atresiasdue to cicatrical tissue and other surgical growths, conditionswhich are not
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